Example sentences for: self-esteem

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

  • There's something about this middle-aged spread (the magazine's, not mine) that suggests a desperate need to join the self-esteem movement.

  • The recurring theme is too much and too little self-esteem.

  • Old San Francisco, long gaseous with self-regard (self-esteem is for Oakland), suffered a grievous deflating April 13 when Bank of America--banker to entrepreneurs and immigrants; builder of new industries; capitalizer of the California Dream; financier, indeed, gallant financier of the Golden Gate Bridge--announced its merger with NationsBank to form BankAmerica and its plans to move bank headquarters from San Francisco to Charlotte, N.C.

  • Probably because of two key attributes that it shares with certain other doctrines, like belief in the gold standard: It appeals to the prejudices of extremely rich men, and it offers self-esteem to the intellectually insecure.

  • The medication--by design--diminishes many of the qualities that helped Tyson to reach the top of his game, including feelings of increased energy, invulnerability, elation, exhilaration, inflated self-esteem, hostility, and violence.


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