Example sentences for: self-destructive

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

  • Downey's character, a self-destructive liar, reminds critics of Downey himself--a recovering heroin addict.

  • A profile of Patricia Duff traces her career as a manipulative, self-destructive femme fatale . After she failed at three marriages and at attempts to leverage wealth and connections into a career as a political powerbroker, she wed Revlon CEO Ron Perelman.

  • "Welles was at the peak of his talent in Touch of Evil , but let's never forget what an abrasive, high-wire, self-destructive talent he was" (Edelstein).

  • The New York Times ' Janet Maslin calls Gummo , a movie about self-destructive teens, "the worst film of the year."

  • The reason given for the recent changes in the welfare program for families was that the program as it was, promoted self-destructive behavior--dropping out of school, dropping out of the work force, and having children with no father present.


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