Example sentences for: self-imposed

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

  • 1) The GOP coalition is still wildly divided ideologically; 2) rules that impose term limits on the speaker and committee chairs mean members are always jockeying for their next powerful position; and 3) the self-imposed term limits of many Republican members encourage them to eschew working within the system in favor of making trouble.

  • After five days of self-imposed starvation, Harry cornered him behind an aviary and fed him, and he immediately jerked away, running and flapping to the water's edge where he sat with a pouch full of fish.

  • In his self-imposed exile in Tunisia, Arafat was joined by thousands of Palestinians.

  • Given the recent transfer of power in Jordan, the upcoming Israeli elections, and his self-imposed May 4 deadline for declaring a Palestinian state, the link with Jordan could help Arafat consolidate ever-slippery support among his various constituencies, Israel, and the United States.

  • In 1997, Rosenbaum published an Esquire cover story lauding Salinger's self-imposed Wall of Silence as "his most powerful, his most eloquent, perhaps his most lasting work of art."


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