How to Use soul-searching in a Sentence

soul-searching

noun
  • This whole last year has been a year of soul-searching.
    — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Kirby shares that soul-searching led her here.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Engage in a bit of soul-searching.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Barnes met Imam in a moment of soul-searching.
    — Emma Green, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
  • There’s a lot of soul-searching going on with Democrats right now.
    — Kellen Browning, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Democrats will have to do a lot of soul-searching to figure out how to recover.
    — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The embarrassment led to soul-searching, both for him and his team.
    — Doug Haller, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Something tells me Nicholas might have some more soul-searching to do this season.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
  • There will be soul-searching in the offseason for the Yankees.
    — Maury Brown, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • There is no way to tackle these questions without deep reflection and a great deal of soul-searching.
    — Kenneth Seeskin, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
  • While three games hardly make a season, there seems to be some soul-searching needed in Dallas.
    — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2026
  • Beyond that are the unknowns, as well as soul-searching, pain and accusations.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The challenges have spurred soul-searching within the industry.
    — Liang Lei, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2025
  • And for all the soul-searching and probing, Conrad is well aware that kink can lead to comedy—up to a point.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 22 Jan. 2026
  • It's been the weirdest, most confusing, challenging, soul-searching year of my life.
    — Karli Bendlin, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Carmy vowed to get the restaurant out of debt before savoring some soul-searching and crafting a new recipe for success.
    — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • There will be questions and soul-searching about these horrifying disclosures in the weeks, months and years to come.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • That really gave us time to do soul-searching and repair our relationship.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The group’s musical soul-searching is what gets most attention in the ReLoad box set.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2026
  • The Bostock ruling arrived against a backdrop of anguished soul-searching on the right.
    — Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
  • After a soul-searching hiatus, the 33-year-old rapper is back in motion and has no plans of letting up.
    — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 3 May 2023
  • But Black Wednesday also sparked deeper soul-searching.
    — Kyle Westaway, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • My advice is to do this soul-searching first, then dive into as much relevant data as possible.
    — Angelo Chavez, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Moore has some soul-searching to do in the offseason, which has already begun for all intents and purposes.
    — Austin Meek, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Belly injections, hormonal shifts and a fair bit of soul-searching ensue.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Not every electoral loss must be followed by a period of soul-searching or rebuilding.
    — Todd Eberly, Baltimore Sun, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The film is a more quiet, wintry contemplation and tortured soul-searching.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The film is a more quiet, wintry contemplation and tortured soul-searching.
    — Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • After some soul-searching, Ricciardo began to figure out what that word meant in his life.
    — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • There will be a lot of soul-searching, a lot of social posts, a lot of hot takes as to what went wrong with Coach Prime’s third campaign.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 29 Nov. 2025

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