Example sentences for: self-serving

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

  • He wrote numerous articles as well as a book etching his self-serving version of events into the historical record.

  • It's true that they were smelly and that the sight of poverty and desperation are not pleasant, and they all told the same self-serving lies for my benefit, and could never remember no matter how many times they were told that white women don't think it's a compliment to be told they have big legs, and they were noisy, although they would pipe down if you cared to go out at three in the morning to ask, which the tourists sure won't.

  • Interpretation is at a minimum throughout, and Pollak soon reduces his all-powerful beast to a broth of pernicious, self-serving lies.

  • 3) His vendetta spin (which the New York Times called "self-serving") curdled the turn-the-other-cheek spin.

  • You can't conceive of Brookings putting out a volume of self-serving bluster like the Edwards book.


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