Examples of selfhood in a Sentence
he spent a year in a monastery determining the core of his selfhood
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In Search of Lost Time can explore selfhood, then, and find that the self is a sprawling, mutable thing.
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Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
Reclaiming conversations on selfhood, bodies and power, with Birthright, a video piece written and directed by Jade O'Belle.
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Suddenly Sophie’s selfhood is tied up in a potential affair with a man who employs her, which was the exact situation in which Sophie’s maid mother found herself with her lord father.
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Lasting lessons As these women’s struggles show, passing was an ongoing negotiation of selfhood under extreme, and often violent, duress.
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Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
Reclaiming conversations on selfhood, bodies and power, with Birthright, a video piece written and directed by Jade O'Belle.
—Photovogue, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2026
Suddenly Sophie’s selfhood is tied up in a potential affair with a man who employs her, which was the exact situation in which Sophie’s maid mother found herself with her lord father.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
Lasting lessons As these women’s struggles show, passing was an ongoing negotiation of selfhood under extreme, and often violent, duress.
—Hana Green, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for selfhood
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“Selfhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/selfhood. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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selfhood
noun
self·hood
ˈself-ˌhu̇d 
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