How to Use soul-searching in a Sentence

soul-searching

noun

• There will be soul-searching in the offseason for the Yankees.
  — Maury Brown, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
• Democrats will have to do a lot of soul-searching to figure out how to recover.
  — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Democrats are soul-searching in the Southern battlegrounds.
  — Matthew Cullen, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
• And packing up to leave New York for a soul-searching stint abroad with my dearest friend, we, together, thought, what better time?
  — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2024
• 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
• While there’s a lot of soul-searching to be done in October, finding ways to stay grounded and connected will be your biggest challenge, Scorpio.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
• 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
• And as the dust settles on 2024, experts also expect Harris may wade into the Democratic Party’s soul-searching efforts and tell her own story of what happened in the race.
  — Julia Mueller, The Hill, 24 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Rasoulof’s script might well have included a scene or two showing Iman’s dirty work in action, rather than consigning his moral dilemma to perhaps one too many soul-searching showers.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025