self-explanatory
Example Sentences
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The phrase is self-explanatory, but Ms. Farr is insistent, so in her reading the woman polishes silver “until it gleamed.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
“It seems like, ‘OK, that’s a pretty simple contract because it’s pretty self-explanatory where you fall in the ecosystem and the hierarchy.’
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
The titles are self-explanatory - Low Self Esteem, People Pleaser, Some Things Don’t Last Forever - reflecting the chatty openness of her lyrics.
From BBC • Jul. 25, 2024
Yet the collapse in Baltimore on Tuesday might have been avoided, some of the engineers said, if the piers were adequately equipped with blocking devices with a self-explanatory name: fenders.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2024
“There’s a bunch of purple paintbrushes,” he said, pointing at flowers that are pretty self-explanatory, I should think.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
