How to Use self-protection in a Sentence

self-protection

noun
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  • So not being the lead in the show is an act of self-protection in a way?
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
  • Sim pushed back against the door and for self-protection grabbed a bracket meant to hold a shelf to the wall that was lying around.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Your self-protection lessens the demand on your country’s health system.
    — Rob Reddick, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024
  • From the perspective of the industry and its allies, the shift to more dangerous weapons and a focus on self-protection paid off.
    — Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • For one thing, all those extra tokens and trinkets make self-protection — the least interesting of all the necessary Survivor skills — the one that matters most.
    — Mark Harris, Vulture, 4 June 2024
  • In fact, other market participants may even prove eager to give them up simply for self-protection.
    — Mark A. R. Kleiman, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
  • 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
  • But public health officials and people with health concerns argue that masks remain essential tools of self-protection.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 7 July 2024
  • 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

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