How to Use self-destructive in a Sentence

self-destructive

adjective

• 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
• 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
• We’re now engaged in a pointless and self-destructive trade fight with our two neighbors.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 Mar. 2025
• As grand metaphors for self-destructive behavior go, this is a pretty clever one.
  — Chris Bellamy and Stephanie Kaloi, EW.com, 2 May 2024
• What is wrong with this upside down, self-destructive picture?
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2025
• Godfrey, the author of The Torn Skirt, a novel about the effects of a self-destructive girlhood, felt compelled to report on what happened, and why.
  — Sarah Weinman, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
• Rage with nowhere to go gets directed at the self as depression, self- hatred, and self-destructive acts.
  — Melissa Petro, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
• Blessed with good health and a knack for avoiding the addictions that claimed so many of his contemporaries, Alpert is the opposite of the self-destructive artist.
  — Paul Keegan, Hartford Courant, 11 May 2024
• 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
• Why can’t your friend recognize her self-destructive foibles?
  — Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024
• And now his rap sheet makes the self-destructive abandon in his songs feel too real and too close to dark sagas of alcohol abuse in country music for comfort.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 20 May 2025
• 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
• Her daughter went through substance abuse and self-destructive behaviors as a teen.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 5 June 2025
• My daughter, who was 16 at the time, fell into a deeply self-destructive place after her dad died from cancer at the beginning of her junior year in high school.
  — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
• Here, our favorite red-spandex-wearing Merc must deal with the grief and self-destructive tendencies brought about by his girlfriend’s death.
  — Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 24 July 2024
• While Hayes' Levant is an acerbic, self-destructive, sad-sack of a human being, there's nothing to hate or even dislike about him.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• The picture evolves around an overweight Lebanese man, called Walid, whose unresolved childhood trauma has set him on a self-destructive path.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2025
• How to resolve the uncomfortable ones, transform the self-destructive ones, and nurture the, well, nurturing ones.
  — Nell Frizzell, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2024
• Roberta’s wild, self-destructive expressionism feels like new ground for her, and the change in mode and class sometimes fits her awkwardly.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• The most brilliant talents, by default, include the most elusive, reclusive, and self-destructive.
  — Naima Cochrane, VIBE.com, 23 Jan. 2025
• This path from being blinded by pain and making self-destructive choices to self-acceptance and love.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
• Frank Dillane plays a self-destructive addict in the dark drama, which Charades is selling worldwide.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2025
• Since Hansi Flick took charge last summer, Barca’s approach in games has been enthralling but self-destructive.
  — Pol Ballús, New York Times, 1 May 2025
• The actress faced a rough patch in 2008 and was hospitalized for five months as a result of opiates usage and self-destructive behavior.
  — Justin Curto, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2023
• In those days his curiosity was stronger than his self-destructive impulse.
  — Elizabeth Winder, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2023
• Fewer episodes and less time spent on the self-destructive café manager would have kept the storyline squarely on Rocco’s psyche.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
• Yet now that substantial success seems to have given birth to a self-destructive fantasy.
  — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 June 2025
• Coping can look messy or self-destructive, but these are often survival strategies, not conscious choices.
  — Liza Barros-Lane, The Conversation, 17 July 2025
• Paul’s increasingly bad decisions throw up a smoke screen around that growth, minutes before the story closes the arc of Turner’s self-destructive bereavement.
  — Andy Crump, Time, 20 July 2025