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).

  • In the above paragraph, the first-person narrator, Jacob Barnes, gives the fact of a dinner, the experience of a dinner, and the value of a dinner their own self-contained moments.

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

  • Fire companies began to ascend stairwell B at approximately 9:07, laden with about 100 pounds of heavy protective clothing, self-contained breathing apparatuses, and other equipment (including hoses for engine companies and heavy tools for ladder companies).

  • 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.


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