How to Use self-imposed in a Sentence

self-imposed

adjective

• And a lot of it is self-imposed.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 17 Nov. 2025
• The timeline and the stakes are all self-imposed.
  — Kristen Arnett august 21, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
• How much pressure is self-imposed, and how much is out of your control?
  — Andee Tagle, NPR, 17 Apr. 2026
• For the women’s program, the standard has always been self-imposed.
  — Asli Pelit, New York Times, 10 July 2026
• But some of the obstacles to growth in Half Moon Bay are self-imposed.
  — John Ramos, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
• This pressure, however, is self-imposed.
  — Ayana Underwood, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
• His Hollywood exile was self-imposed…and happily on his own terms.
  — Chris Nashawaty, Vanity Fair, 16 Feb. 2026
• Your body begins to abandon you, but remaining are your responsibilities, a lot of which are self-imposed.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
• But when Laguna Beach leveled up in competition last week, the team had to overcome some challenges that were self-imposed.
  — Michael Huntley, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2025
• But bit by bit, women operators are throwing off societal and self-imposed limitations and starting a new journey.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2025
• Michigan self-imposed a two-game suspension for Moore during the upcoming 2025-26 football season.
  — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• Many of these restrictions are self-imposed, in coordination with the European Commission, and can be changed with sufficient political will.
  — Dalibor Rohac, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2025
• The 60-year-old had permed her hair every six weeks for 30 years before realizing that chemically straightening her hair had become a time-consuming and self-imposed obligation.
  — Annie Blay-Tettey, Allure, 29 May 2026
• There’s no spark between Gleeson and Frei, and the biggest impediments to the characters’ relationsip are self-imposed (Ned takes himself too seriously).
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026
• The Senators’ older players, after some discussion among the team’s leadership group, self-imposed a business casual dress code ahead of the 2025-26 season.
  — Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
• In late December 2020, Arizona self-imposed a one-year postseason ban and Miller was ultimately fired on April 7, 2021.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026