How to Use self-mutilation in a Sentence

self-mutilation

noun

• This would be voluntary movement patterns with no clear function or goal, performed repeatedly with little to no variation—feather plucking, screaming, or even self-mutilation.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2025
• In animals, it is known to cause symptoms such as excessive salivation, aggressiveness and self-mutilation, the CDC said.
  — Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 30 Dec. 2025
• But at the same time, the underlying concerns that animate AI doomers have become harder to dismiss as chatbots seem to drive people into psychotic episodes and instruct users in self-mutilation.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2025
• Jailhouse records show that Smith was disciplined at least five times between 2010 and 2017 for infractions including self-mutilation, drug use and possession of narcotics or marijuana.
  — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
• Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that advocates for child safety online, has found that a number of AI chatbots and companions can be prompted to encourage self-mutilation and disordered eating to teenage accounts.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
• The film makes the resonant if not heavy-handed point that the world, and women, favors taller people, that masculine value is enmeshed with height—an argument that the face of the looksmaxxing movement, Clavicular, extends to other self-mutilation practices that aim to make men more beautiful.
  — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 4 June 2026
• Social-media sites have long neglected to restrict eating-disorder content, for instance, and Instagram permitted graphic depictions of self-mutilation until 2019.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025