How to Use self-protection in a Sentence

self-protection

noun

• After the exchange by the two lawyers, Sommer granted Gutierrez-Reed to right to keep a firearm in her home for self-protection.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
• Still, if women keep allowing fear and ambivalence and self-protection to censor the truth, where’s the progress in that?
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
• So was the murder a necessary act of self-protection or an avoidable crime of passion?
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• If countries whose very existence seems at stake will not unite for self-protection, how can the United States hope to effect a union among them?
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 14 June 2022
• At its best, that’s what the men’s liberation movement of the ’70s was about: stripping men of their many, many layers of pretense and self-protection.
  — Hazlitt, 9 Aug. 2022
• Her clasped hands cross her head, covering her face in a gesture of self-protection and self-effacement.
  — Farah Peterson, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2023
• Some said the gunman’s rampage had instead persuaded them to keep their guns for self-protection.
  — Constant Méheut, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• Improvements to the ship’s self-protection suite were supposed to include new air defenses.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2023
• Elek said the culture of gun ownership for self-protection dated back hundreds of years, when populations in the region tried to resist the Ottoman Empire.
  — Constant Méheut, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• Yet Chalamet gave him layers — a sliver of pitiable self-protection and tragic besottedness.
  — Vulture, 8 Dec. 2023
• Expect more such attempts at political self-protection this Congress.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• These responses have evolved as self-protection and are rooted to our personal histories and personality.
  — Sam Carr, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023
• People with low trust in their partner tend to recall their partner’s mistakes negatively, emphasizing self-protection over relationship dependence.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Particularly, if your attempts to set boundaries or assert yourself are consistently met with defensiveness, hostility or disregard, this method may be a valuable strategy for disengagement and self-protection.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024