How to Use soul-searching in a Sentence

soul-searching

noun
  • Something tells me Nicholas might have some more soul-searching to do this season.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
  • And a third straight loss in the first round of the playoffs will undoubtedly lead to some offseason soul-searching for the Kings.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
  • After a soul-searching hiatus, the 33-year-old rapper is back in motion and has no plans of letting up.
    Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 3 May 2023
  • The soul-searching starts and ends there, on an outlier of a song more concerned with the consequences of fame than the cause of those consequences.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
  • But if Elemental performs closer to Lightyear, some soul-searching about the state of the Pixar brand will be in order.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 30 Apr. 2023
  • He was attracted to the project to understand the angst that led the teenagers to kill themselves and the soul-searching that this tragedy provoked in their parents and grandparents.
    Martin Dale, Variety, 21 May 2024
  • Beyond that are the unknowns, as well as soul-searching, pain and accusations.
    Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The current moment is unlikely to provoke much soul-searching in the Kremlin.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
  • It's been the weirdest, most confusing, challenging, soul-searching year of my life.
    Karli Bendlin, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2023
  • My first couple months following the breakup were filled with soul-searching road trips, purging my closet, and reruns of Gilmore Girls.
    Amanda Kohr, refinery29.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Buoyed by the cost-of-living crisis and immigration angst, its rise has caused soul-searching for a country still mindful of its Nazi past.
    Kate Brady, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • After taking a licking in 2022, Republicans once again failed to respond with soul-searching about losing the youth vote.
    Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The official Israeli response to those soul-searching questions is that for now the nation must wage war and those questions must and will be thoroughly studied.
    Avner Cohen, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2023
  • That really gave us time to do soul-searching and repair our relationship.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Belly injections, hormonal shifts and a fair bit of soul-searching ensue.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Everyone was soul-searching and looking for answers on Wednesday.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The bombings sent shock waves across Belgium and prompted a painful process of soul-searching in the multicultural and multiethnic nation.
    Monika Pronczuk, New York Times, 25 July 2023
  • Both the Yarl and Gillis cases have sparked anguish and soul-searching on social media, as people noted that in both cases, the young victims were shot while making a mundane mistake — going to the wrong house.
    Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • To be sure, there have been several changes to DC’s superhero universe that were unconnected to Johnson, but rather a part of a larger soul-searching mission by the studio.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The incident is fueling nationwide soul-searching about sexism in sports, and in society at large.
    USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In an interview Friday, Thomas, a Democrat, said that from his perspective, Trump seemed to have done very little soul-searching over his myriad transgressions.
    Richard Fausset, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
  • This in turn prompted soul-searching among Ukraine’s Western backers while bolstering critics alarmed more at the cost of soaring food and energy prices than at Russia’s empire-building.
    Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • American soul-searching The world watched as a police officer pressed his knee into a Black man’s neck for 9½ minutes on a Minneapolis street corner.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • Her cancer diagnosis and subsequent death kicks off what little plot there is in Sabbath’s Theater, sending Mickey on a soul-searching quest through his relationships, past and present.
    Vulture, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The mix-and-match surf, swim, and yoga vacation packages are perfect for splitting your time between waterborne adventuring and soul-searching amid the shimmering waters of the Pacific.
    Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 27 June 2023
  • South Alabama came into this season with high expectations after going 10-3 a year ago, but might have to do some soul-searching following Saturday’s loss.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The inherent unfairness of the death penalty, whether because of race or its finality, has been debated for years, often with soul-searching arguments that go beyond politics.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Driven by the recent end of pandemic-era federal funding for emergency housing, the expulsions have spawned a state budget standoff and, in some quarters, painful soul-searching about Vermont’s liberal values, and the limits of its good intentions.
    Jenna Russell, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
  • The deaths inspired waves of books, articles and investigations of conspiracy theories, as well as a period of soul-searching among Britons, who resented the royal family’s standoffish behavior and were caught up in displays of mass grief.
    Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • These realizations also sparked soul-searching about Israel’s internal crisis.
    Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023

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