Example sentences for: self-centered

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

  • Reiner has the fatted, self-centered TV exec's demeanor down pat, but the movie degrades him while holding the same attitude toward human beings that he has.

  • The Dalai Lama's pop Buddhism is appealingly self-centered: Happiness trumps everything.

  • And on it goes, a list of nose-wrinkling quibbles you can still hear today: We're mercenary, self-centered, impolite, and worst of all, too bourgeois to understand the geniuses of our age, such as Jerry Lewis and Mickey Rourke.

  • Having celebrated his 1995 novel Independence Day (which won a Pulitzer), critics are now wondering whether Ford can write about anything other than the subject of that book--that is, self-centered men.

  • The group is commended for its ability to tap spirituality without degenerating into self-centered men's-movement histrionics.


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