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Example sentences for: self-interest

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

Some options are so terrible and irrevocable, so unlikely to be in a person's self-interest, and so open to exploitation and flawed decision-making that society outlaws them.
Clearly self-interest is not playing the decisive role in the struggle over affirmative action.
We do this not out of philanthropy but out of enlightened self-interest.
Credibility is the bread and butter of a travel guide; why would one sabotage it with such naked self-interest?
In a desperate commingling of self-abasement and self-interest rivaled only by Kathryn Harrison's memoir of French-licking her father, Joyce sold the story of her 1990 breast-augmentation surgery to Self magazine.