Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

It is a story of motherhood and disjunction, of self-making and villainy, of a remarkable power depicted and deployed on an intimate scale.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2023

That story, after all — a story of self-making that is also assimilation — is one of the dominant American narratives.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2021

Seemingly mesmerized by her own image, she is captured at the innocent early stages of preoccupation with womanly self-presentation and self-making.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 1, 2019

“We are living in a period when most Americans have an astounding array of self-making building blocks to select from, which presents people with difficult choices,” says Harrison.

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2016

Peter Stansbury Pape had emerged from the West of his upgrowing and self-making with two projects in view—one grave, one much less so.

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel