Example Sentences

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The film’s pivotal piece is Greensmith’s Hunter, who is as impressively impassioned as he is self-destructively abrasive.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2022

It would also reduce pressures on police and prison personnel to behave in ways that self-destructively rob them of their humanity as well as oppress others.

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2020

Thelma and Louise, she wrote, “become free but only wildly, self-destructively so—free to drive off the ends of the earth.”

From Time • May 23, 2016

From that moment, roughly, her trajectory flipped from self-destructively caustic to open and accommodating.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2015

Living creatures that expended their energy ineffectively or self-destructively would be eliminated in the struggle for existence.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur