Example sentences for: selfishly

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

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

  • "Wrapped and totally immersed within the competitive cocoon of academic medicine, living every day at a great distance from the 'real' world, I was all but oblivious to the fact that a woman's movement had started, and, selfishly, had no idea how other women in my own world were faring."

  • And Lidie learns, learns, and learns her lesson: She's been selfish and . Desperate to escape the plantation where she's been recuperating but lacking the willpower, she has selfishly accepted the defenseless Lorna "as my reviver, felt the cool, firm sensation of her hand on my neck as a promise."

  • 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.

  • 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.


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