Example Sentences

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Although there had been progress in helping people move out of "costly" hotels, he added, there was more to do to help Afghans move out and achieve the "opportunity to live self-sufficiently".

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2023

The court acknowledged it was an exceptional case since the Amish live separately and self-sufficiently, said Joshua Weishart, a lawyer and professor at West Virginia University.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2022

These academic programs at Clemson, Coastal Carolina, College of Charleston, USC and Winthrop teach students how to learn independently, how to maintain employment and how to live self-sufficiently.

From Washington Times • Jan. 13, 2021

In the early 1990s, a group of eight hippies sealed themselves into a glasshouse dome in the Arizona desert, intending to replicate Earth’s ecosystems and live self-sufficiently.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2020

The Bohemian fancied that he saw a surgeon talking self-sufficiently about the mysteries of the will before a corpse.

From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster