Example Sentences

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As perennials and beehives slowly establish themselves, the environment will begin to stabilize, and a large section of the campus will become self-maintaining, if not self-sustaining.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2022

“A realistic portrayal should convey that therapy isn’t required only when there is a crisis situation at hand, and that therapy can be used as a proactive, self-maintaining strategy,” said Pierre-Smith.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2021

And we’re off and running in a self-maintaining cycle of anger and distance.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2012

A cynical explanation favored in cybernetic circles: "Nowhere else can you obtain a self-maintaining computer with built-in judgment, which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor -and by people who like their work so well."

From Time Magazine Archive

You know, in the Fourth Degree, nothing in all the Universe could resist, deflect, or control it, if launched freely, and self-maintaining.

From The Ultimate Weapon by McConnell, Gerald