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:

  • Indeed, the famous port city of Nagasaki served as Japan’s sole point of contact with the outside world during 260 years of self-imposed isolation.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • The real debacles in the field of corporate name changes have been utterly self-imposed, not forced by a merger or other change of circumstance.

  • The NYT runs a two-column off-lead on Nigeria's "self-imposed poverty."


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