How to Use self-assured in a Sentence

self-assured

adjective
  • The 26-year-old Scott is very self-assured.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 2 May 2026
  • The entire defence looks more tentative, less self-assured than a year ago.
    — Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Her guitar-playing is as self-assured and precise as ever.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Because when volume is understood and mastered, there is no outfit that doesn’t look self-assured.
    — Alex Sales, Glamour, 8 Mar. 2026
  • What was once dismissed as a slow-burn subtropical capital now feels dynamic and self-assured—a city in its prime.
    — Alli Forde, Travel + Leisure, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But Nobody’s Girl floats free, self-assured and self-contained—a true American tragedy.
    — Julia Hass, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • But what was missing was more of a winning spirit, more aggressive, uninhibited and self-assured.
    — Max Mathews, New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • Protecting their peace and remaining self-assured has become a priority.
    — Essence, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Burnham forms a nice contrast with Mulligan — bumbling and self-deprecating, while she is contained and self-assured.
    — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2020
  • When the story begins in 1580, Will and Agnes are both arrestingly self-assured.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Professionals who are self-assured don’t need to perform credibility.
    — Britney Porter, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Eight years after launching her eponymous cosmetics brand Westman Atelier, the makeup artist feels more self-assured than ever.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Her perspective on pop, politics, and everything in between has remained consistently direct and self-assured.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026
  • This is Louisville cooking at its most self-assured—global in influence, local in execution, and uninterested in chasing trends for the sake of it.
    — Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Kelly would do well to study the kind of subtle resistance that Gummer puts up here; even if John was less self-assured, Caroline’s reactions seem more alive.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The new campaign aims to reveal a more intimate side of Wasson, capturing her relaxed and self-assured presence along the California coastline.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In several episodes, viewers see participants acting decisively and self-assured in private conversations, only to show up to the roundtable and completely change their thinking.
    — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Usha Vance is confident and self-assured but is very much a woman who’s still coming to grips with her desire to live a somewhat normal life and the constraints of being married to one of the Republican Party’s most promising politicians.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Slimmer and more self-assured now, dressed in suits and a tie, always charming and polite, Ramírez made more of an impression when accompanying his mother to diplomatic functions on the Latin American cocktail circuit.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
  • But his sophomore album, 2022’s Faith in the Future, was more vibrant and self-assured, giving Tomlinson his first top 5 entry on the Billboard 200 chart.
    — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Time gave us the late-career brilliance of filmmakers like Jane Campion, Agnès Varda, Claire Denis, and Kathryn Bigelow, whose work became richer, fiercer, and more self-assured because these women had lived and learned so much.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 31 May 2026

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