self-sufficing

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

But this is seriously affected by that doctrine which attempts to regard the Cosmos as self-governing and self-sufficing, needing nothing, and failing in nothing.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

In other words, Europe had ceased to be self-sufficing, the very life of its industries and its urban populations being dependent upon foreign importations from the most distant regions.

From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Stoddard, Lothrop

What did self-sufficing nature, in this season of early spring love, care for these sounds?

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold

He was a General, with a most self-sufficing bearing, so much so, that the mere sight of it must have sent a tremor into the hearts of all the officials of West Siberia.

From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Calm, cold, lonely, self-sufficing—and self-sufficing, too, because he must be so, because he had none other to whom to turn—that was his character, and viewing him in that manner I had always judged him.

From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie