Example Sentences

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An army of self-loving, well-organized women, Erivo and Nelson assure us, can and surely will win.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

Above all, it’s the self-deprecating, self-aware and ultimately self-loving honesty that distinguishes Tea’s way of life and her irresistible, evocative and wise way of writing about it.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2022

Whatever your thing, the essence of this ritual is to carve out time for yourself every day to recharge with a little self-loving activity that puts you square in the present moment.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2022

Alys, the heir to a flush-toilet fortune, orphaned at a young age by his glamorous but rather useless parents, lives a detached and self-loving life in Los Angeles circa 1980.

From Slate • Dec. 3, 2014

Away with these self-loving lads Whom Cupid's arrow never glads!

From Tudor and Stuart Love Songs by Briscoe, John Potter