How to Use self-protection in a Sentence

self-protection

noun

• So not being the lead in the show is an act of self-protection in a way?
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
• Teams should not have to choose between honesty and self-protection.
  — Teresa Hopke, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• The troops are authorized to use their weapons for self-protection.
  — Jeremy Mikula, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2025
• Your team may move from problem-solving to self-protection.
  — Dr. Cynthia J. Young, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• This can occur even before the leaves die as a measure of self-protection.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 28 May 2026
• In a case like this, self-protection is the most reasonable action.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 16 Dec. 2024
• Sim pushed back against the door and for self-protection grabbed a bracket meant to hold a shelf to the wall that was lying around.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2024
• But the line between self-protection and self-repression is thin.
  — Franklin Schneider, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
• Still, what is often thought of as a form of self-protection is also a personal threat.
  — Olivia Rockeman, Time, 16 Apr. 2025
• Your self-protection lessens the demand on your country’s health system.
  — Rob Reddick, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024
• That self-protection right can be restricted but not removed.
  — Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026
• So was the murder a necessary act of self-protection or an avoidable crime of passion?
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• Some said the gunman’s rampage had instead persuaded them to keep their guns for self-protection.
  — Constant Méheut, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• But self-protection isn’t only about staying quiet.
  — Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
• In truth, silence becomes self-protection.
  — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• But in rigid hierarchies, safety gives way to self-protection.
  — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
• Your strategy for self-protection can save you from falling apart over the caregiving journey.
  — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
• These are songs not of isolation but of self-reflection, self-protection and self-care, whatever the cost.
  — Adam Bradley D’angelo Lovell Williams Milton David Dixon Iii, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
• Still, if women keep allowing fear and ambivalence and self-protection to censor the truth, where’s the progress in that?
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
• Improvements to the ship’s self-protection suite were supposed to include new air defenses.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2023
• In fact, other market participants may even prove eager to give them up simply for self-protection.
  — Mark A. R. Kleiman, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
• Everyone turtles into their shell of self-protection.
  — Susan Parsons, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026
• From the perspective of the industry and its allies, the shift to more dangerous weapons and a focus on self-protection paid off.
  — Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• Brancusi’s faith in form and timelessness began to be identified with good taste, self-protection, and escape.
  — Michael Brenson, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2026
• The real reason is usually hidden behind fear and self-protection.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
• Until the gun Iman was given by his employers for self-protection disappears.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
• If countries whose very existence seems at stake will not unite for self-protection, how can the United States hope to effect a union among them?
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 14 June 2022
• But public health officials and people with health concerns argue that masks remain essential tools of self-protection.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 7 July 2024
• What looks like indifference is often a form of emotional self-protection, Astle says.
  — Judy Lagrou, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2025
• Marroquín then personally escorted him to the border with Guatemala and gave him a firearm for self-protection.
  — Danielle MacKey, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025