Example sentences for: altruistic

How can you use “altruistic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As it turns out, this altruistic instinct proves fatal not for the narrator but for one of the other rescuers.

  • Real Americans, of course--whether from the South, the Midwest or, especially, New York or L.A.--would rather be dead than altruistic.

  • The effects of a deficit-financed tax cut can depend on whether most parents are altruistic or strategic.

  • But I doubt that will deter some legitimately interested, sympathetic, altruistic, caring people from trying to get inside other people's heads and hearts, in order to share their pain.

  • Other theorists, notably David Sloan Wilson of the State University of New York at Binghamton, have proposed that natural selection may sometimes favor "altruistic" individuals, who sacrifice their own selfish interests for those of their herd, or their species, or even the entire ecosystem in which they are embedded.


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