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How to use self-denying in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word self-denying? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
On the day when it begins to discipline itself with a self-denying ordinance we shall know it has begun to grow up.
Mindlessly devoted and masochistically self-denying, he is held up as the truest expression of hobbithood.
We operated in this war with a self-denying ordinance that we wouldn't get any of our soldiers killed.
Are also a broom in the Hand of God all those who give themselves in a self-denying full of love, forgetting themselves.
The most notable and most respected in your church and society is the most serviceable and the most humble and self-denying.
Maybe this is better than self-denying ascetic teenage subculture anarchism.
Sargent is portrayed as modest, self-denying and unambitious, the antithesis of the preening Oxford peacocks.
There are hundreds of small, realistic problems to be faced every week, and both senior partners in the family must be prepared for patient and self-denying hard work.
He denies that his prophecy is self-denying.
But code switching is something many women, gay and other minority ethnic people will recognise: a self-denying ordinance forced upon us within any place dominated by straight, white, middle-class men.
His self-denying ordinance was understandable.
Proust was almost uniquely self-abasing, seeming to believe that the nature of friendship demanded that he turn into the most compliant and self-denying of figures.
Actually, I persuaded myself that it isĀ  ludicrous to be so self-denying.
The two figures, one highly individualised, dedicated to self-assertion and pleasure-seeking, the other ascetic and self-denying, are sharply contrasted.
Examples from Classical Literature
Violet could realize her personality and the self-denying life that she led.
Had they ever reflected on the heroism of women, on their self-denying, unrewarded labour?
But we must note one of the implications of this self-denying ordinance of science.
Then, for twelve years, he was employed in teaching and in many laborious and self-denying duties.
He wonders if there is such a thing as her being too sensible, too self-denying!
I hate all kind of strictness, and duty, and self-denying, and that kind of thing.
It was not suggested that the unrewarded and self-denying life was perhaps the noblest.
They have such an eatable look that the most self-denying stranger can hardly keep his hands off.
Alchemists were, certainly, men of pure lives, self-denying and humble.
We become mercenary or self-denying, very much as we are instructed.
You are aware that my plan in bringing up these girls is, not to accustom them to habits of luxury and indulgence, but to render them hardy, patient, self-denying.
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