Sample sentences for SELF-EVIDENT

(click/touch triangles for details)

Definition

obviously so, or known to be true without proof

We hold these truths to be self-evident...

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- I Have a Dream

self-evident = obviously so, or known to be true without proof

History seems to assume that this force is self-evident and known to everyone.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
Why take pains to prove that an Ape is not a Newton when it is self-evident that he is not a man?
William Wordsworth -- Preface to Lyrical Ballads
He was, they decided, not like them at all, and the detached and aloof manner in which he watched the snowfall made this palpable and self-evident.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
Every prejudice that will answer these purposes is self-evident.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
The matter is probably not quite as self-evident as Fru Giannini is presenting it.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
She closed her eyes, but could think only of the 368 people who—it seemed self-evident now—would rather she'd never been born.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident.
George Orwell -- 1984
He spoke as though this was the most natural and self-evident and inevitable thing we could be doing.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
Edward was, of course, immediately convinced that nothing could have been more natural than Lucy's conduct, nor more self-evident than the motive of it.
Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
That is self-evident on the face of it.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
This possibility-which now seems so self-evident-didn't occur to either Mike or me at the time, however.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
The gravity of events was self-evident.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Her hair, her skin, were there to see, self-evident, and it was obvious how some other color (or colors) ran deep within her.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
That was, indeed, self-evident.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
He added as a self-evident proposition, engendering low spirits, "But you can't marry, you know, while you're looking about you."
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
This reading, however, in addition to being self-evident, seemed unlikely for another reason.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
Both Cap and the Sergeant saw the truth of this, which would have been nearly self-evident even to one unaccustomed to vessels.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
This was an idea he had always had, and it was thus self-evident to Descartes that such an idea could not possibly have come from himself.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World

Dictionary / pronunciation — Google^®Dictionary list — Onelook.com^®

Search for other examples by interest

Interest — Source