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Example sentences for: selfish

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

If all your motives are selfish, you'll probably first make some discreet inquiries to determine whether the president is prepared to outbid the prosecutor--say with the promise of a full pardon.
They do it because they're selfish creeps.
So a taste for locking the refrigerator in the afternoon--even when you know that, by a purely selfish calculation, you ought to make yourself a giant hot fudge sundae every night--makes you more desirable as a mate.
Cixi has been blamed ever since for her profligate and selfish ways, combined with her Machiavellian rise from concubine to Empress, popularly held to be the cause of China’s weakness and the fall of the last dynasty.
The figure of the mother--wronged by men but stronger than Atlas, selfish and prejudiced and quite possibly evil but once in a while capable of infinite love--has dominated nearly all Kincaid's stories and novels.