How to Use self-contained in a Sentence
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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
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The entire light is self-contained and made with stainless steel.
—Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 July 2023
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But Nissan says its system would be more self-contained.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2013
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The guest house is fully self-contained with its own gated driveway and parking area.
—Mark David, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2023
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Though each episode is self-contained, one theme is consistent: Your past is always present.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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Each season of the show is self-contained and introduces new cast, characters and settings.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Davis told the council that Huntsville taxpayers are protected because the project, financially speaking, is self-contained.
—Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 30 July 2023
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They are self-contained with child care, education, markets and neighborhood retail.
—Davin Hong, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2024
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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
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