Example sentences for: selfishly

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

  • Personally, I ignored both arguments when I selfishly limited the size of my family.

  • Or perhaps when parents move, they selfishly put their own interests ahead of their children's.

  • But because I selfishly acted as if other people's children are less important than my own, I stopped reproducing too soon.

  • Then, her father in his grief selfishly leaned on Virginia's half-sister, Stella, for support and, after a period of exhausted servitude, she died too.

  • So this past holiday season, as you rushed to buy presents for your kids or your siblings or your nieces or nephews, impelled by "selfishly" altruistic genes, you were operating under flawed Darwinian logic.


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