How to Use self-questioning in a Sentence

self-questioning

noun

• With this news came a several-minute period of self-questioning.
  — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2026
• But users can instruct it to be tentative, hesitant, self-questioning or even deliberately clumsy.
  — Chris Reed, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
• And yet, in the scene on the Hill of Love, Lapid offers no self-questioning, no sense of cinematic exertion or trouble, in the fictional framing of the real agonies of Gaza.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
• After long periods of grief, reflection and painful self-questioning, most of the families interviewed by The Charlotte Observer no longer seem interested in reducing their children’s deaths to any one thing.
  — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 4 June 2026
• This majestic sequence delivers a lifetime’s outpouring of love’s inadequacies and frustrations, of grief and regret, of gratitude along with candid acceptance of loss, and of self-questioning that never shakes the foundations of the family—her ferocious commitment to the children.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 12 June 2026