How to Use self-conscious in a Sentence

self-conscious

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  • This piece, like the hand-cuff bag, feels self-conscious in a way the rest of the looks don’t.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2024
  • This is not just a self-conscious crime comedy, per se.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Part of the problem is that its creators, Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, are so self-conscious.
    — David Benedict, Variety, 12 Sep. 2024
  • This isn’t the first time I have been told that some tall individuals are self-conscious about it.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2023
  • There was this kind of deeply self-conscious, rather thin bravado that was really quite acute.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
  • And the spike in virtual meetings also seems to be here to stay, leaving some of us more self-conscious about our necks.
    — Deanna Pai, Women's Health, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Again, this could be all down to the writing, to the show’s expanding storylines and self-conscious frippery.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 21 May 2024
  • There's charm to Marlowe's self-conscious retro agenda.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 16 Feb. 2023
  • There’s more heft in that gesture than in any of Pi’s more self-conscious moralizing.
    — Vulture, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Poor Joey, standing shirtless in front of his harem, is feeling a little self-conscious.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The goal was to be able to wear backless dresses or go out and not have to feel self-conscious about my boobs and my cleavage but still look womanly.
    — Lawrence Yee, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
  • The years ticked by, and more self-conscious things popped out of my body diverting the attention away from my follicles.
    — Stacey Wallenstein, Flow Space, 27 June 2024
  • Zendaya trained for three months, but confessed to feeling self-conscious on set about her playing skills.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Inside the ceremonies, the audiences are tough: self-conscious, nervous and, as the night unfolds and more of them lose, in a souring mood.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
  • That’s summed up by the highly self-conscious curtain call in which absolutely no-one smiles.
    — David Benedict, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • If there are things that these youths feel self-conscious about doing in front of a camera, there’s little evidence of that reserve here.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Feeling self-conscious when your kids are in awe of their friends with big houses and shiny new toys is natural and relatable.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 22 June 2023
  • Every year, the kids got more serious about the plays, more ambitious but also more self-conscious.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2023
  • For Blum, this has meant a self-conscious climb into American middle-class hide-a-bed comfort.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The film’s intimate sense of joy is not a deflection against the truth of what the Johnsons are facing, but a self-conscious, honest expression of it.
    — Eric Farwell and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2024
  • So far, Malone has stood the test of time, morphing from a vapid, clout-chasing rapper to a self-conscious acoustic rock star.
    — Joshua Medintz, The Enquirer, 10 July 2023
  • There's no evidence that Aykroyd was self-conscious about strutting around in a pair of denim cutoffs in front of the cast and crew, but the sketch he's shown rehearsing in the film is real.
    — Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • During an interview with Vogue in January 2023, the Black Widow actress said she was raised to not be self-conscious of her body.
    — Ariana Quihuiz, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Quite possibly the darkest club on the Beach, good news for those who are self-conscious about their lack of rhythm or aren’t quite satisfied with that ambitious new ‘do.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
  • As such, the 1991 play holds up much better today than many of Simon’s more self-conscious domestic dramedies.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2023
  • Social Studies suggests that the bigger problem is that the overwhelming litany of apps has been designed to make young users feel self-conscious.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2024
  • This can affect your ability to move, complete daily tasks, and feel more self-conscious about your body image.
    — Joy Emeh, Health, 9 Aug. 2024
  • To be garish and to be ridiculed were twin fates that Woolf, too self-conscious to feel comfortable traveling on public transport, was anxious to avoid.
    — Ruth Scurr, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2023
  • In the cover story, Sheeran opens up about being self-conscious and bad habit of comparing himself to other male artists.
    — Ebony Williams, ajc, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The museum’s stuffiness reflects ‘Los Four’s’ self-conscious scruffiness.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024

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