Example sentences for: self-contained

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

  • Site selected as typical or representative of important variations; small number of cases to keep reader's interest; data often include visual evidence; analysis concerned with data quality and meaning; and reports use self-contained, separate narratives or descriptions

  • These profits escape from an otherwise self-contained financial cycle to satisfy shareholders or run learned societies; unlike typical publishing relationships, none are returned directly to the author (the researcher who wrote the piece) or even to the consulting experts (the researchers who provided the peer review).

  • Not only do they "retreat into bedrooms which seem as self-contained as an astronaut's capsule, each with its own TV, stereo-system and wired-up computer," but into an "increasingly self-referential and self-validating" worldview.

  • This part serves both as a self-contained course in English etymology and as an explanation of the more technical Latin and Greek data presented in A CROSS REFERENCE DICTIONARY and in the Technical Information and Detailed Example sections of the COMMON ROOTS.

  • It is much like terrain he has described before, only now, for the first time, he does not break down the description into a mere series of self-contained, tightly held moments.


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