How to Use self-destructive in a Sentence

self-destructive

adjective

• And maybe that is self-destructive.
  — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
• Weirdest of all is the self-destructive way these trees grew.
  — New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
• This speaks to something in him that’s both self-centered and self-destructive.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Sep. 2024
• What is wrong with this upside down, self-destructive picture?
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2025
• The record is at once sensual, self-destructive, and lovelorn.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2025
• Why can’t your friend recognize her self-destructive foibles?
  — Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024
• As grand metaphors for self-destructive behavior go, this is a pretty clever one.
  — Chris Bellamy and Stephanie Kaloi, EW.com, 2 May 2024
• We’re now engaged in a pointless and self-destructive trade fight with our two neighbors.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 Mar. 2025
• And Spiezio had spent the last 13 years in a self-destructive spiral.
  — Levi Weaver, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
• Watch for self-destructive patterns that can emerge when stress goes unprocessed.
  — Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2026
• What ensued, though, was volatile, self-destructive, mayhem.
  — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
• The other shocking thing to me was how self-destructive behaviors were framed as self growth.
  — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2025
• Her daughter went through substance abuse and self-destructive behaviors as a teen.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 5 June 2025
• In those days his curiosity was stronger than his self-destructive impulse.
  — Elizabeth Winder, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2023
• How does an economy fall into such a self-destructive cycle?
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Apr. 2026
• Williams seemed consumed with how to ensure this wasn’t all a self-destructive, highly dangerous waste of time.
  — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025
• There’s something noble about all that yearning; noble and self-destructive.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
• That too many people pursue self-destructive paths for example.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 23 June 2026
• But the quiet only amplified her most self-destructive thoughts.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2023
• Rage with nowhere to go gets directed at the self as depression, self- hatred, and self-destructive acts.
  — Melissa Petro, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
• But the actor never found an equal role, partly because his talent was married to a deep self-destructive streak.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
• Fincher makes clear that this loser subculture is self-destructive and uncool.
  — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
• This path from being blinded by pain and making self-destructive choices to self-acceptance and love.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
• So what’s the key to the relaxed, yet guarded, sense of respect Icelanders hold for their at-times self-destructive home?
  — Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2024
• Yet now that substantial success seems to have given birth to a self-destructive fantasy.
  — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 June 2025
• In other cases, however, the cells don’t follow this self-destructive route.
  — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
• Also, the way that competitive streak may, in some ways, fuel his self-destructive, hellbent style on the field.
  — John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2026
• What remains is the puzzle of how such an epically self-destructive fiasco could have happened in the first place.
  — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Coping can look messy or self-destructive, but these are often survival strategies, not conscious choices.
  — Liza Barros-Lane, The Conversation, 17 July 2025
• The scene is Industry at its chaotic best, Harper at her self-destructive worst.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026