How to Use soul-searching in a Sentence

soul-searching

noun

• This whole last year has been a year of soul-searching.
  — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
• Kirby shares that soul-searching led her here.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 28 Aug. 2025
• Engage in a bit of soul-searching.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
• Barnes met Imam in a moment of soul-searching.
  — Emma Green, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
• There’s a lot of soul-searching going on with Democrats right now.
  — Kellen Browning, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
• Democrats will have to do a lot of soul-searching to figure out how to recover.
  — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2024
• The embarrassment led to soul-searching, both for him and his team.
  — Doug Haller, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
• Something tells me Nicholas might have some more soul-searching to do this season.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
• There will be soul-searching in the offseason for the Yankees.
  — Maury Brown, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
• There is no way to tackle these questions without deep reflection and a great deal of soul-searching.
  — Kenneth Seeskin, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
• While three games hardly make a season, there seems to be some soul-searching needed in Dallas.
  — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2026
• Beyond that are the unknowns, as well as soul-searching, pain and accusations.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
• The challenges have spurred soul-searching within the industry.
  — Liang Lei, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2025
• And for all the soul-searching and probing, Conrad is well aware that kink can lead to comedy—up to a point.
  — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 22 Jan. 2026
• It's been the weirdest, most confusing, challenging, soul-searching year of my life.
  — Karli Bendlin, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2023
• Carmy vowed to get the restaurant out of debt before savoring some soul-searching and crafting a new recipe for success.
  — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 24 June 2026
• There will be questions and soul-searching about these horrifying disclosures in the weeks, months and years to come.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
• That really gave us time to do soul-searching and repair our relationship.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023
• The group’s musical soul-searching is what gets most attention in the ReLoad box set.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2026
• The Bostock ruling arrived against a backdrop of anguished soul-searching on the right.
  — Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
• After a soul-searching hiatus, the 33-year-old rapper is back in motion and has no plans of letting up.
  — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 3 May 2023
• But Black Wednesday also sparked deeper soul-searching.
  — Kyle Westaway, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• My advice is to do this soul-searching first, then dive into as much relevant data as possible.
  — Angelo Chavez, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• Moore has some soul-searching to do in the offseason, which has already begun for all intents and purposes.
  — Austin Meek, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2025
• Belly injections, hormonal shifts and a fair bit of soul-searching ensue.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
• Not every electoral loss must be followed by a period of soul-searching or rebuilding.
  — Todd Eberly, Baltimore Sun, 21 Dec. 2024
• The film is a more quiet, wintry contemplation and tortured soul-searching.
  — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
• After some soul-searching, Ricciardo began to figure out what that word meant in his life.
  — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
• There will be a lot of soul-searching, a lot of social posts, a lot of hot takes as to what went wrong with Coach Prime’s third campaign.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 29 Nov. 2025
• And a third straight loss in the first round of the playoffs will undoubtedly lead to some offseason soul-searching for the Kings.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024