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.

The idea was to provide the country with a supply of wheat until sufficient wheat-growing soil could be broken up to make it practically self-sufficing in respect of wheat.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

Paraguay was an isolated and almost self-sufficing commonwealth.

From The South American Republics Part I of II by Dawson, Thomas C.

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

America is the only civilized country in the world that is virtually self-sufficing as regards the primary requirements of her economic life.

From Morals of Economic Internationalism by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)

"The patient and Meg are extremely self-sufficing," she said, dropping into a chair.

From In Mr. Knox's Country by Ross, Martin