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:

  • He died of self-inflicted starvation at the age of 72 in Para, near Rajgir.

  • tsuris the gamut of painful emotions—some real, some imagined, some self-inflicted.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The problems that U.S. automakers endured during the 1970s and 1980s were, for the most part, self-inflicted, as the superior performance of Japanese automakers over that period suggests.


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