How to Use selfless in a Sentence

selfless

adjective
  • Do Tatum and Brown need to be more selfless down the stretch?
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Why can’t Cooke write a song as pure and selfless as that?
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Your mom is one of the most (if not the most) selfless people in your life.
    Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Part of my culture is that the mom should be selfless and live for her kids.
    Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2023
  • The next man up would be Ryan Hyde, a selfless backup from Berlin.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
  • Both of them are so selfless and so brave to put all of their pain out there and to keep fighting.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Is this the altruism of a selfless person and my ego getting in the way?
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 16 Mar. 2023
  • As women, we have been told to be selfless and to think of others first.
    Holly Corbett, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Sometimes a single selfless act can change the course of your life.
    David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2020
  • And thousands of newborns are alive thanks to her selfless work.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Thank you for being so selfless and loving with a heart of gold.
    Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2021
  • Jonathan is loved by many and was a great example of selfless love.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • All this in the context of a wilderness everybody wants a claim on, even the selfless ones.
    Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
  • The social media trolls who accuse her of doing a selfless act for a friend for the fame.
    Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 13 Feb. 2023
  • There are some people out there that are very selfless and willing to do this.
    Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • That is selfless, not to mention a story worth telling.
    Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Thank you for working so hard babe and for being so selfless.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Get tissues ready to witness one of the most selfless and patient forms of love that graced our screens.
    Tomris Laffly, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Feb. 2023
  • And why does this happen to someone who is so selfless?
    Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 25 Sep. 2021
  • But how much longer can the country expect teachers to be that selfless?
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
  • As a direct result of his selfless conduct, the lives of 29 soldiers were saved.
    Phil Gast, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Thankful to have someone as selfless and as loving as you in my life.
    Danielle Jennings, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Like Nik has been for others, a selfless leader among his peers.
    Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The Empire were selfless in their quest for a championship.
    Sean Collins, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Black has great size at point guard and is a selfless player willing to defend.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
  • Hwang nails the performance, showing there’s more to Eponine than a selfless street urchin with a crush on a boy.
    Joey Morona, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Nate Thompson of Murray, Utah, a childhood friend of Hoover's, described the sergeant as a selfless and kind friend.
    Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2021
  • None more so than your selfless warmth and humour through world lockdown.
    Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 24 Oct. 2022
  • People can be good and bad at the same time, selfish and selfless, depending on circumstances.
    Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Mars in this fire sign will show you how to assert yourself-— while balancing the ideology of selfless love toward those in your circle.
    Essence, 1 Nov. 2024

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