How to Use self-examination in a Sentence

self-examination

noun

• Some time spent in self-examination could yield new insights.
  — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026
• Ladies, check this as your reminder to do the self-examination in the shower.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 3 July 2024
• This will help in being able to detect changes during breast self-examinations.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
• But Travis Scott isn’t an artist known for deep self-examination either.
  — Hazlitt, 23 Aug. 2023
• It's not been easy and has taken significant work and self-examination.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
• Hopefully, this conversation will be a wakeup call for your friend and prompt her to do some self-examination.
  — R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
• This 2-1 defeat is a blow and should prove a moment for self-examination for the club’s coaching staff and playing squad.
  — Carl Anka, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
• With Scorpio season in full force, this time of the year encourages us to do deep self-examination to face our shadow sides.
  — Kyle Thomas, People.com, 27 Oct. 2024
• That kind of deep self-examination requires patience, courage, and more often than not, discomfort.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 12 Apr. 2025
• The shift from institutional blame to self-examination is where the film found its real subject.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
• Deep self-examination doesn’t always come easy to hard-charging CEOs.
  — Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
• Febos makes this kind of self-examination universal.
  — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
• In fact, much of our technology is designed to distract us from, or worse, replace this loop of self-examination and improvement.
  — Arianna Huffington, Time, 29 June 2026
• Readers will be most moved by Liu’s humility in his constant learning of the craft of social protest and his many moral self-examinations.
  — Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• Yet the current administration has chosen to hack away at budgets rather than do the hard work of self-examination and improvement.
  — Steven R. Furlanetto, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
• Women should regularly perform a self-examination to look and feel for any changes or symptoms related to breast cancer.
  — Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
• Discipline and self-examination are the cornerstones of Kipchoge’s approach both to sport and life.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• There’s a lot of self-examination in this season in particular about Dave’s relationship to his fans.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
• The immediate reward for undertaking this kind of hard self-examination would mainly be shame and regret.
  — Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
• His early, anonymous SoundCloud drops were hushed and hesitant, a shroud of tape hiss and white noise between himself and true self-examination.
  — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 10 June 2026
• With each new Burr special of the last few years, this pattern repeats, with a wall of defensive posturing and then a twist into near-tender self-examination.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
• On the 30th, the full moon in fellow water sign Pisces brings a rare opportunity for self-examination and release.
  — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 31 July 2023
• One of the best mechanisms for doing this is the annual board self-examination, sometimes called an effectiveness audit or board review.
  — James Langabeer, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
• There’s too much consequence at the fearsome big-wave break off the coast of Half Moon Bay, too much reason to withdraw into self-examination.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Dec. 2022
• For that matter, much of what has happened to everyone at this point, and what happens in these two episodes, is a result of various characters attempting self-examination.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2023
• His new album, Stardust, is his first recorded without substances, and trades self-examination for affirmation.
  — Stephen Kearse, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2025
• And Kenyatta, so dedicated to action and self-examination, has made no allowance for the profound damage done to his daughter by his absence.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2024
• The book’s occasional oases of self-examination are surrounded by dusty expanses of omission and unconcern.
  — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025
• Exploration fosters self-examination under the Scorpio new moon.
  — USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
• For readers of a certain age, these passages, which capture a romantic longing that is adolescent in its intensity, will provoke self-examination.
  — Christine Smallwood, Vulture, 6 May 2024