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:

  • 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).

  • A Moebius strip is a self-contained closed loop-the thing discovered (invented?) by Mr. Moebius in the 19th century that's a two-dimensional surface with just one side.

  • Keener's Maxine is so glamorously, tantalizingly self-contained that you can almost believe she never dreams of being John Malkovich.

  • These are self-contained hotels, with facilities such as golf courses and night-time entertainment.

  • Probably no star could get away with it if he weren't such an image of cool, as beautiful and remote and self-contained as Garbo or Chet Baker.


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