How to Use self-conscious in a Sentence

self-conscious

adjective

• This piece, like the hand-cuff bag, feels self-conscious in a way the rest of the looks don’t.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2024
• That freed you up to feel a lot less worried and self-conscious as an actress.
  — H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
• Eva agrees to dance with Frank, and Richie helps Frank feel less self-conscious about his role as stepdad.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2025
• If you’re rusty on bar etiquette or self-conscious about how to act on a night out, John deBary is here to help.
  — Hana Asbrink, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 May 2025
• This is not just a self-conscious crime comedy, per se.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2024
• Part of the problem is that its creators, Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, are so self-conscious.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 12 Sep. 2024
• This isn’t the first time I have been told that some tall individuals are self-conscious about it.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2023
• There was this kind of deeply self-conscious, rather thin bravado that was really quite acute.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• And the spike in virtual meetings also seems to be here to stay, leaving some of us more self-conscious about our necks.
  — Deanna Pai, Women's Health, 11 Apr. 2023
• The goal here, in focusing on language, is not to shame anyone or to make people self-conscious about their use of words.
  — Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2025
• Again, this could be all down to the writing, to the show’s expanding storylines and self-conscious frippery.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 21 May 2024
• There's charm to Marlowe's self-conscious retro agenda.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 16 Feb. 2023
• No need to feel self-conscious about mixups as AI drives the conversation.
  — New Atlas, 17 Mar. 2025
• At one point, Djordjevic traces the ridges of tree bark with the palm of his hand, self-conscious but hopeful of some sort of revelation.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 Feb. 2025
• There’s more heft in that gesture than in any of Pi’s more self-conscious moralizing.
  — Vulture, 30 Mar. 2023
• During an appearance on the Wednesday, April 30 episode of The View, the actress opened up about feeling self-conscious about her height as a child.
  — Catherine Santino, People.com, 1 May 2025
• Poor Joey, standing shirtless in front of his harem, is feeling a little self-conscious.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024
• The goal was to be able to wear backless dresses or go out and not have to feel self-conscious about my boobs and my cleavage but still look womanly.
  — Lawrence Yee, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
• The years ticked by, and more self-conscious things popped out of my body diverting the attention away from my follicles.
  — Stacey Wallenstein, Flow Space, 27 June 2024
• Zendaya trained for three months, but confessed to feeling self-conscious on set about her playing skills.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 23 Aug. 2023
• In these songs, Mayhem’s restlessness feels a touch self-conscious.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
• Inside the ceremonies, the audiences are tough: self-conscious, nervous and, as the night unfolds and more of them lose, in a souring mood.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
• Sure, the cast understood the franchise well enough, but that mostly led to a lot of self-conscious performing of Housewifery.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2025
• That’s summed up by the highly self-conscious curtain call in which absolutely no-one smiles.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• Even if that reason is simply to make life a little more convenient or to feel a little less self-conscious.
  — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 12 Mar. 2025
• Stock image of a man sitting apart from others, looking self-conscious.
  — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
• If there are things that these youths feel self-conscious about doing in front of a camera, there’s little evidence of that reserve here.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2024
• Feeling self-conscious when your kids are in awe of their friends with big houses and shiny new toys is natural and relatable.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 22 June 2023
• A little self-conscious, a little arty (that whistled intro).
  — Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 18 July 2025
• Maybe some are self-conscious about their legs, and find jeans a comfortable solution for their exercise routines over athleisure.
  — David Oliver, USA Today, 24 July 2025