How to Use self-contained in a Sentence

self-contained

adjective

• The sea, just steps away, completes the circle, making the home self-contained in more ways than one.
  — Tessa Watson, ELLE Decor, 14 Aug. 2023
• The entire light is self-contained and made with stainless steel.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 July 2023
• They're self-contained, easy to eat, don't require silverware, and just feel right when eaten by the ocean.
  — Karen I. Chen, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2024
• But Nissan says its system would be more self-contained.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2013
• The guest house is fully self-contained with its own gated driveway and parking area.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2023
• Though each episode is self-contained, one theme is consistent: Your past is always present.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2024
• This kit is completely self-contained and has everything your kids will need to create up to 15 bracelets.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 30 Nov. 2023
• The CAN bus was not designed for security, because all of the devices are assumed to be self-contained.
  — Doug Jacobson, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2023
• But while the main plot of each movie may be informed by what came before, the films themselves remain more or less completely self-contained.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 15 July 2023
• Each season of the show is self-contained and introduces new cast, characters and settings.
  — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• The process uses up to 80% less water to get the same output as its counterparts, and is essentially self-contained.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Feb. 2024
• The stand-alone Buddhas in the show’s last gallery are self-contained and expressively commanding, and modern-looking.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• If somebody pulls the attention of the group to tell a story, the people in that group are expecting and wanting to hear a story that resolves itself and is self-contained.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2023
• For Issei, who is quiet and refined and self-contained, this is just what he’s been training for under Leger’s tutelage.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
• But also, there are artistic statements that should be both self-contained and in dynamic conversations with the world around them.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2023
• Those images of our home planet—big, blue, yet as cozily self-contained as a snow globe—yielded a striking sense of how connected life is.
  — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 22 June 2023
• Van Booy’s gift for language is immersive, creating a world as artfully self-contained as a snow globe.
  — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2024
• And so those of us who've been advocating for transmedia as an approach have always said the film, or whatever the mothership is, has to be self-contained.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 19 July 2024
• That issue appeared more self-contained, though, than the ripple effects seemingly caused by AT&T’s problems.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2024
• Davis told the council that Huntsville taxpayers are protected because the project, financially speaking, is self-contained.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 30 July 2023
• They are self-contained with child care, education, markets and neighborhood retail.
  — Davin Hong, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2024
• The name could itself be a codename, but clues hidden within the code suggest that the one-to-many broadcast tool will be optional and self-contained within its own section of the WhatsApp Status tab, separate from encrypted group chats and messages.
  — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 22 Feb. 2023
• The factory isn’t completely self-contained, requiring a diesel generator for power and a freestanding hammer mill to crush the debris and waste into a fine powder that is then fed into the machine, along with a small amount of cement and water.
  — New Atlas, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024