How to Use self-destruction in a Sentence

self-destruction

noun

• Who could fail to be entertained by such a saga of self-destruction?
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2023
• In Season 2, the show is richer and pricklier, keyed in to the nuances of self-destruction.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• In that attempt, the Starship failed, as did SpaceX’s self-destruction system.
  — William Gavin, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
• To move away from feedback loops of self-destruction and violence.
  — David Lipset, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• The singer combines the genre’s enduring themes of heartbreak and self-destruction with camp humor and a distinctly Irish sense of the absurd.
  — Roisin Kiberd, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• There should be a sense of wounding loss in the disintegration — the self-destruction, even — of their small, frail family.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 May 2024
• To turn your back on the sun and worm your way into ever colder and darker places seems like a deliberate act of self-destruction.
  — Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 16 Mar. 2023
• One of those benefits, strangely enough, seems to be programmed self-destruction.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• This anti-art horror film appeals to the hipster appetite for self-destruction.
  — Armond White, National Review, 17 Nov. 2023
• Sylvia Plath narrates her self-destruction Hughes doesn’t wonder.
  — Nora Krug, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• There is a perverse tendency, in such situations, to treat the artist’s act of self-destruction as somehow a final artistic flourish.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2024
• Her daughter is described in stark extremes: a once-cherubic infant who’s now a churlish adolescent bent on self-destruction.
  — Naomi Huffman, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2024
• There wasn’t much for Sibley to object to, beyond Giuliani’s general self-destruction.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2023
• The purpose of this appendage was simple: to accelerate the satellite’s self-destruction by pushing it into the Earth’s atmosphere.
  — Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2023
• The self always related persons to its own identity: self-regard, self-destruction, self-love.
  — Olga Tokarczuk, Harper's Magazine, 6 Jan. 2023
• Like a lot of his clients, the chef, Cliff Grubin, used to be a hedonist but has since swapped self-destruction for self-care, specializing first in juicing and eventually branching out into raw food.
  — Hadley Freeman, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
• Her emergence as a writer evolves at the same time and takes the narrator on a journey of addiction, self-destruction and ultimately survival that finally comes in the shape of love and motherhood.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 6 May 2024
• Ballads of death and self-destruction suffused with strength and determination.
  — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
• Her self-destruction was almost necessary because her old mechanisms for coping no longer served her.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 May 2023
• Humanity failed miserably to defend itself against the plague of self-destruction.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
• The address is striking now for its suggestion that Ukrainian independence would be an act of self-destruction, however.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 2 June 2023
• Vain, often drunk, desperate to get a leg up, the title character weaves in and out of humiliating scenarios, scraping by with a sense of self-inflation to match his appetite for self-destruction.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• Re-platforming Jones will surely be seen in the corporate world as another sign of impulsive, reckless management and an appetite for self-destruction.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2023
• Humans could be wiped out by a catastrophic asteroid strike, commit self-destruction with worldwide nuclear war or succumb to the ravages caused by the climate emergency.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2023
• Earth Day is now a global event, recognized by more than a billion people worldwide as a day to support positive environmental action that protects us from what some see as self-destruction.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
• Pop stars being badasses, as ever, but expressing doubt, and doing it without the flagellating self-destruction that might have come with an early iteration.
  — Susannah Felts, Longreads, 27 Apr. 2023
• The mental darkness attacking DEI leads, ultimately, to self-destruction.
  — Wonder Drake, Baltimore Sun, 28 Apr. 2024
• Tommy documents Franklin's lows as spectacularly as her highs, from family conflicts to career burnout, self-destruction, and battles with addiction.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2023
• In the seven years since her debut album, SZA’s ability to wrangle self-destruction in her songwriting has grown to darker, pettier heights—even better, she’s decided to outright reject the idea that maturity is a prerequisite for growth.
  — Pitchfork, 12 Dec. 2023
• Across its four previous episodes, the show has examined its protagonists’ confusion, self-destruction, and despair, creating an intimate portrait of how geographic rootlessness can yield paralyzing melancholy.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Aug 2024