How to Use selfish in a Sentence

selfish

adjective

• I wish he'd spend less time with his friends and more time with me. Am I being selfish?
• She's interested only in her own selfish concerns.
• Part of this project was selfish.
  — Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
• Aren’t all artists a bit selfish?
  — Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
• To be so selfish as to leave me here alone all day.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
• There is enough food to go around, but please do not be selfish.
  — Greg Bishop, Washington Examiner, 16 Mar. 2020
• His coach pleads with him to be more selfish, to take more shots.
  — Phil Anastasia, Philly.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• Running can be selfish and a waste of time.
  — Nicholas Thompson, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
• Roup wants moms to be a little more selfish.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 25 Aug. 2025
• The adult who sets boundaries may be called selfish.
  — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• My young and selfish self was not happy.
  — Esther Ndumi Ngumbi, NPR, 10 May 2026
• And putting yourself and your health first is not at all selfish.
  — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 19 Oct. 2020
• This isn’t about being cold or selfish.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• Both can be selfish, and both can be hard to see clearly on your own.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 June 2026
• For me, part of it was selfish because four-man is the coolest event.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, SELF, 2 Feb. 2022
• Be selfish, show up for yourself.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 12 Nov. 2025
• To leave you stranded seems selfish.
  — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
• To be given so much and not help others is selfish and wrong.
  — Michelle Matthews, AL.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• That’s not to be selfish but there’s a lot of teams where D do drive the team.
  — Eric Stephens, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
• The bottom line is, my husband is a selfish old man.
  — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
• So make the right decision on each shot and don’t be selfish.
  — Dan Albano, Orange County Register, 11 June 2024
• This is all just rhetoric to convince ourselves to be selfish.
  — Josh Kun, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• Make smart people do selfish things that lead to bad outcomes.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• What's selfish is not taking care of me and being in a bad mood all day.
  — NBC News, 1 May 2018
• So not being a part of it, just from a selfish standpoint, is hard.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2024
• Wanting that again isn’t selfish.
  — Paulina Roe, Refinery29, 9 Dec. 2025
• Should Booker have been more selfish?
  — Doug Haller, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
• There’s nobody selfish, one through nine, and the bench players, too.
  — Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 21 June 2025
• Saying no is not about being selfish.
  — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• Yes, that is selfish on my part, but anyone who has ever been on the wrong end in court gets it.
  — Wally Hall, Arkansas Online, 24 Apr. 2021