How to Use self-preservation in a Sentence

self-preservation

noun

• To look away is an act of both will and denialism, a form of self-preservation.
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
• What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs?
  — The Editors, National Review, 6 June 2024
• Yet the band had predetermined the time frame on the basis of ideas of self-preservation.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
• The idea of self-preservation could also kick in, as AI gets even smarter, Bengio said.
  — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 6 Feb. 2025
• The boy in the story has developed some crafty means of self-preservation.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• As the moon and Saturn clash, self-preservation instincts kick in.
  — Usa Today, USA Today, 9 July 2025
• There’s a self-preservation in there somewhere, a bit of resilience.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 7 May 2023
• This project proves that home decor can be both an act of self-expression and self-preservation.
  — Moná Thomas, People.com, 22 May 2025
• What’s really cool about the end of Episode 2 is that each of those things [self-preservation and acting on a crush] are at their fullest.
  — Lauren Coates, Variety, 15 Feb. 2025
• The story of how Landi ended up living on a leaky barge some 30 miles off the shore of Dubai is a tale of self-preservation.
  — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
• There’s no judgment here on those who need to step away from soul-crushing updates in the name of self-preservation.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• Therefore, for the sake of self-preservation, the Middle colonies and South Carolina chose the lesser of two evils.
  — Time, 3 July 2023
• In terms of simple self-preservation, the Europa League matters more to Ange Postecoglou.
  — Phil Hay, New York Times, 2 May 2025
• These days, the instinct for self-preservation may be losing out to the thirst for adventure.
  — J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 6 June 2025
• The drive circuits around what keeps us alive, beyond mere self-preservation.
  — Rosie Stockton may 29, Literary Hub, 29 May 2025
• About the importance of setting boundaries for the sake of self-preservation?
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
• Each of them were able to make a plea before the Traitors picked their victim, with Jeremy taking a unique tact to self-preservation.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 17 Jan. 2025
• Kenneth is a 38-year-old who’s led a very small, isolated life out of self-preservation.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• But such acts of self-preservation have a collective cost.
  — Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025
• Sometimes not speaking out can be an act of self-preservation.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• But by 2021, leaving it had seemed a necessary form of self-preservation.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
• Hoyer could be acting out of self-preservation at the deadline of what might be his final shot in Chicago.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2025
• Giulia, torn between self-preservation and guilt, slips Tanner a key to a locked office.
  — Martine Paris, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
• These men’s complacency, The Seed of the Sacred Fig argues, isn’t just a selfish act of self-preservation.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
• This is in line with the phenomena of self-care and self-preservation as opposed to selfishness.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• Of resourceful self-preservation for the sake of self-preservation alone.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2023
• Her will—and maybe her capacity for self-preservation—had waned.
  — Amory Rowe Salem and Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 9 Jan. 2024
• Drivers who flee the scene after killing a pedestrian or cyclist often do so in an act of self-preservation.
  — Ryan Lillis, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
• But the hobby that started as a matter of self-preservation was becoming a side hustle.
  — Liza Weisstuch, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• If nothing else, what Aster argues is that there are people on both sides of the political aisle who are motivated by self-preservation — when push comes to shove, most act in their own interest.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 23 July 2025