Example sentences for: self-reliance

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

  • Ferber depicts the ritual as the child's natural progress toward nocturnal self-reliance.

  • The white parishioners fled, and blacks retreated to the borderline separatist rhetoric of empowerment and self-reliance.

  • With modern America's emphasis on independence and individualism, you might say that the early separation from parents is sending a forceful message to their children that they are going to have to learn that American virtue of self-reliance.

  • The holiday's emphasis on self-reliance and military strength in the face of persecution dovetailed with the themes of nationalists seeking to establish a Jewish state.

  • In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance — all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.


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