Example sentences for: self-pity

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

  • “I felt right from the start [that] if I wallowed in self-pity about being fired and having my belongings piled in the gutter that I would never understand why all these things were happening.

  • The main themes: 1) Israel is a model democracy; 2) Israeli treatment of Arabs is incomparably better than Arab treatment of Israelis or Arab treatment of Arabs; 3) Zionism signifies "the Jewish preference for power over self-pity."

  • Perhaps I'm the only one out here who thinks Generation-X bashing has lost its sheen of originality, but that's just what Kinsley indulges in with his reference to the "particular generational self-pity" of Gen-Xers.

  • and filled with "self-pity" and afflicted with a "thin skin" (Kate O'Beirne).

  • Since losing the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the Serbs have been "seasoned haters raised on self-pity."


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