Example sentences for: selflessness

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

  • To put up with any one of these things, let alone all of them, requires an almost monstrous lust for effacement--a taste for masochism . These women are character studies in the most terrifying sort of selflessness, the kind that results from the failure to develop a self.

  • Others attribute their selflessness to environmental programming.

  • Equality feminists find this celebration of selflessness creepy, but it's not just being foisted on women by male writers.

  • Newsweek , picking up the "selflessness" theme, praises U.S. players who "accepted diminished roles" and offered "to do anything I'm asked for this team."

  • Snags: 1) Jackson is increasingly friendly with Wall Streeters, an alliance that troubles many lefties; 2) he will certainly lose; and 3) he may lack the selflessness required to build an organization that would endure after his loss.


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