Example sentences for: self-inflicted

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

  • Van Gogh the preacher's son, born in a dismal town in Holland in 1853 and dead of a self-inflicted pistol shot to the chest 37 years later, never stayed put.

  • Primary diagnoses for hospitalized poisonings are shown in Table 1. Suicide was not listed as an eventual primary cause of death among patients hospitalized for poisonings, nor was attempted suicide (E956, "Suicide and self-inflicted injuries by cutting and piercing instrument," or E958.

  • Surgeon General David Satcher has made suicide prevention a top priority, and later this month a Senate health subcommittee, the chairman of which lost his father to a self-inflicted wound, will hold hearings into the issue.

  • That's me at the dice table, baby,Betting come, little joe, and yo,Blowing the coals, laying thunder,My foot on top a fifty dollar chipSome drunk spilled on the floor,Dishonest me, evener of scores,Eager accepter of the extra change,Hotel towel pilferer, coffee spoonLifter, fervent retailer of others'Humor, blackhearted gossiper,Poisoner at the well, dwellerIn unsavory detail, delighted sayerOf the vulgar, off course belierOf the true me, empiric builderNewly haircutted, stickerer-upFor pals, jam unpriser, medicTo the self-inflicted, attorneyTo the self-indicted, petty accountantAnd keeper of the double books,Great divider of the universeAnd all its forms of existenceInto its relationship to me,Fellow trembler to the future,Thin air gawker, apprehenderOf the frameless door.

  • Bill Clinton, despite his self-inflicted wounds, surely is.


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