Self-made

"Self-made" in a Sentence (15 examples)

President Lincoln was what we call a self-made man.

Mr Ford is what is called a self-made man.

His grandfather is what is called a self-made man.

He is, what is called, a self-made man.

He is what we call a self-made man.

He is what is called a self-made man.

He is a self-made man.

Mr. Ford is what is called a self-made man.

He's a self-made man.

She's a self-made woman.

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My father was the quintessential self-made man.

There was I a dragoon, roving, unsettled, not self-made like him, but self-unmade—all my earlier advantages thrown away, all my little learning unlearnt, nothing picked up but what unfitted me for most things that I could think of.

“These were people who were self-made, and self-made people made up their own words,” Mr. Sokolowski added.

Near-synonyms: homemade, homebrew, homespun, handmade; see also Thesaurus:custom-made

Originally each school was bound only by self-made rules.

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