How to Use selfishly in a Sentence

selfishly

adverb

• And for me, more selfishly—what would this mean for my June wedding?
  — Sandhira Wijayaratne, Scientific American, 28 Aug. 2021
• Happy for her but selfishly sad.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
• But the grocery store doesn't enforce the rule, and some adults selfishly choose not to do so.
  — Kara Alaimo, CNN, 10 Jan. 2022
• When available, the side of roasted wild mushrooms is a gem to be shared or to be selfishly guarded.
  — Ben Jarrell, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• For sure, plenty of people are selfishly refusing to roll up their sleeves for the greater, moral good.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021
• And selfishly, getting to be the badass final girl, covered in blood and kicking ass, is a dream role.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Nov. 2025
• Research has found that people behave more selfishly around their close friends than with others who are less close.
  — Evan Polman, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
• Our spiritual work can’t be done selfishly or for ourselves alone.
  — Ethel A. Baker, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2025
• Lee chalked it up to a small percent of attendees behaving selfishly.
  — Dino Grandoni and Kim Bellware, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
• You’re focused on yourself selfishly.
  — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 2 Feb. 2026
• And even though Miranda jokes about selfishly purchasing the mixer so both of them can enjoy it, who can blame her?
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 19 Oct. 2021
• Innocently, yet selfishly, posting that tweet opened a whole new world to me, and my mental health journey began.
  — Rachel Murphy, Health, 8 Jan. 2025
• The move came from love, and perhaps from Deborah, a little bit selfishly, wanting to enjoy her success alone.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 23 May 2024
• And when looking at it selfishly in this was, as any fan might, the end result is a basketball product the likes of which have never been seen within a car ride of my house.
  — Mark Deeks, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• To live intelligently selfishly is to understand that our well-being is linked with the well-being of others.
  — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
• And through that, even selfishly, finding new people to inspire us by being a part of a thing that feels real, rather than part of a thing that feels performative.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 13 Aug. 2022
• Doc always blamed Everett for selfishly keeping him from the clinic when Jordan needed him.
  — Andy Swift, TVLine, 19 Dec. 2024
• People were selfishly hoarding, onlookers claimed, or just wanted to feel a sense of control amid uncertainty.
  — Chelsea Wald, Wired, 18 Apr. 2021
• My observation is that a lot of companies are challenged by leaders selfishly hoarding talent.
  — Amber Burton, Fortune, 21 July 2023
• That choice became a cautionary tale for Democrats who argue that too many of the old guard have selfishly refused to pass the baton to the younger generation.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 20 June 2026
• As the pandemic has shown, our species is prone to kicking the can down the road, to selfishly putting off the change and sacrifice needed to avoid collective future catastrophe.
  — William Falk, The Week, 3 Sep. 2022
• The intention is not always selfishly negative.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
• Makers of traditional Venetian masks said protesters who had no stake in the tourism industry had acted selfishly.
  — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2021
• And selfishly, altruism has a direct impact on our own fulfillment, mental health, and satisfaction.
  — Brent Gleeson, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• However, the show reduced Hope to a lovesick girl pining desperately (and selfishly) for a boy not nearly as impressive as herself.
  — Amanda Ostuni, EW.com, 28 June 2022
• There are also cases, although less common, where the manager does, in fact, implement their employees’ great ideas but selfishly takes the credit for themselves.
  — Mark Murphy, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• At this moment, Irving is perceived as one of the most selfishly misguided players in all of professional sports, and that’s saying something.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2022
• Book banning is an example of the folks who have political aspirations trying to keep their name on the national radar, very selfishly at the expense of our students.
  — Time, 13 July 2023
• In the real world, leaders can selfishly abuse their authority or simply fail to deliver collective benefits.
  — Thomas Morgan, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2026
• Unfortunately, too many people have selfishly chosen to not get vaccinated.
  — Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com, 27 Dec. 2021