How to Use self-preservation in a Sentence

self-preservation

noun

• What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs?
  — The Editors, National Review, 6 June 2024
• The idea of self-preservation could also kick in, as AI gets even smarter, Bengio said.
  — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 6 Feb. 2025
• The boy in the story has developed some crafty means of self-preservation.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• There’s a self-preservation in there somewhere, a bit of resilience.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 7 May 2023
• What’s really cool about the end of Episode 2 is that each of those things [self-preservation and acting on a crush] are at their fullest.
  — Lauren Coates, Variety, 15 Feb. 2025
• The story of how Landi ended up living on a leaky barge some 30 miles off the shore of Dubai is a tale of self-preservation.
  — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
• There’s no judgment here on those who need to step away from soul-crushing updates in the name of self-preservation.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• Therefore, for the sake of self-preservation, the Middle colonies and South Carolina chose the lesser of two evils.
  — Time, 3 July 2023
• About the importance of setting boundaries for the sake of self-preservation?
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
• Each of them were able to make a plea before the Traitors picked their victim, with Jeremy taking a unique tact to self-preservation.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 17 Jan. 2025
• Kenneth is a 38-year-old who’s led a very small, isolated life out of self-preservation.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• But such acts of self-preservation have a collective cost.
  — Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025
• Sometimes not speaking out can be an act of self-preservation.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• But by 2021, leaving it had seemed a necessary form of self-preservation.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
• These men’s complacency, The Seed of the Sacred Fig argues, isn’t just a selfish act of self-preservation.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
• This is in line with the phenomena of self-care and self-preservation as opposed to selfishness.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• Of resourceful self-preservation for the sake of self-preservation alone.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2023
• Her will—and maybe her capacity for self-preservation—had waned.
  — Amory Rowe Salem and Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 9 Jan. 2024
• Drivers who flee the scene after killing a pedestrian or cyclist often do so in an act of self-preservation.
  — Ryan Lillis, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
• But the hobby that started as a matter of self-preservation was becoming a side hustle.
  — Liza Weisstuch, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• The self-preservation factor can’t be ignored and the fear of the unknown are hurdles to moving immediately to a nine-game SEC slate.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 31 May 2023
• For Cook, the decision to end new music releases on PC was almost an act of self-preservation.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 10 May 2024
• What real or invented term could be used to describe this extreme form of self-preservation?
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 10 Mar. 2023
• Put more time and energy into self-preservation and feeling and looking your best.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2024
• Stick to the truth, keep your life simple and dedicate your time to self-preservation, learning and staying out of other people’s business.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
• Makers of new drugs or medical implants, such as hips or pacemakers, are speed averse out of self-preservation.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2013
• Most of them are abandoned or rejected by their peer groups, thanks to tribalism or simple self-preservation.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
• Instead, for most of their predators, spiders are a safe snack — a tame and tasty treat — rather than a threat, forcing spiders to follow some pretty strange strategies for self-preservation.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
• But the first-time author argues that true disruption must include self-preservation.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 7 Mar. 2025
• Beausoleil makes that claim, and argues that stupidity and self-preservation is also a sound reason for the Manson murders.
  — TIME, 7 Mar. 2025