How to Use self-interest in a Sentence

self-interest

noun

• And that seems to almost run counter to one’s own self-interest.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 7 July 2024
• Is there perhaps some self-interest at play here?
  — Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
• Gi-hun sees it as a curse — a reminder of all the lives lost out of greed and self-interest.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 26 Dec. 2024
• Women both lead and cast their votes in a way that's bigger than their own self-interest.
  — Marianne Schnall, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
• With so many voting for self-interest, there’s no reason to think any of this will change.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2025
• Our own agenda, our own feelings, our own pride, our own self-interest.
  — Jayson Jenks, New York Times, 31 July 2026
• Call it enlightened self-interest wrapped in black and gold.
  — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2026
• Lost in all of the self-interest is the only thing that horse racing has going for it.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2026
• Scarcity is the rule, and requires a degree of self-interest.
  — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024
• So there is a certain self-interest in businesses stepping in to fill the gap.
  — Roger Trapp, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
• But more enlightened self-interest won out.
  — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
• Or why people do things that go against their self-interest and are susceptible to the lure of a cult.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
• Characters make choices that go against their own self-interest.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 July 2026
• How corporations, in self-interest and self-greed, are bending at the knee to please our rulers?
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 19 Aug. 2025
• Yet people do worry openly when the war affects their self-interests.
  — Peter Pomerantsev, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2024
• Fiction is able to explore the seams of self-interest and conflict that run across men’s social worlds with a freer hand.
  — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
• The goal was to take self-interest out of the redistricting process and return it to the people.
  — Suzette Valladares, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
• But some critics will make arguments purely out of self-interest.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 6 Nov. 2023
• His self-interest and careerism are clear even in a place where self-interest and careerism are the order of the day.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 17 July 2024
• Doubters accuse its champions of self-interest or even self-delusion.
  — Max Bearak Giacomo D’orlando, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• Rather than appeal to France’s self-interest, Franklin aimed higher.
  — Eric Weiner, TIME, 11 June 2024
• Our self-interest has usually been of the sensible sort.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2026
• This is a person who's looking out purely for their own self-interest, self-preservation.
  — ABC News, 21 Sep. 2025
• Generosity is a virtue, but maintain a healthy self-interest.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 28 June 2025
• Yet Smith never treated short-term self-interest as the sole or overriding goal.
  — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
• If only one of you cares for the other, then the one who chooses self-interest gets it all as the generous one loses out.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• Our senators represent all of us and not just their own self-interest and ambitions.
  — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2026
• Move to even-year elections or be remembered as the council that chose self-interest over democracy.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2025
• Perhaps the moves are also a signal that self-interest extends beyond the business case.
  — WIRED, 23 June 2023
• It will be answered by weighing the rights of creators against the self-interest of commercial entrepreneurs.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023