OURSELVES in a Sentence

Learn OURSELVES from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
255 example sentences for OURSELVES, such as:
1. We are not born for ourselves.
2. Dug ourselves in to the hill top.
3. One year we wrote the play ourselves.
4. No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
5. It must be due to some fault in ourselves.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of OURSELVES
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  That done, we gradually began to settle down and to accommodate ourselves to our new surroundings.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  Of course, Doctor Watson, this is strictly between ourselves.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
3  We rattled across Waterloo Bridge and through miles of streets, until, to my astonishment, we found ourselves back in the Terrace in which he had boarded.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
4  It must be due to some fault in ourselves.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
5  A man--I forget his name--a man connected with some Institute, a man who goes about giving advice, gratis, to descendants like ourselves, degenerate descendants, said.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
6  One year we wrote the play ourselves.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
7  Dug ourselves in to the hill top.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
8  People like ourselves, beginning life again.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
9  A burst of applause greeted this flattering tribute to ourselves.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
10  On different levels ourselves went forward; flower gathering some on the surface; others descending to wrestle with the meaning; but all comprehending; all enlisted.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
11  I speak only as one of the audience, one of ourselves.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
12  He too, Mr. Streatfield appeared to be saying, is part of ourselves.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
13  And retrieving some glint of faith from the grey waters, hopefully, without much help from reason, she followed the fish; the speckled, streaked, and blotched; seeing in that vision beauty, power, and glory in ourselves.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
14  I have a document here in his handwriting; it is between ourselves, for I scarce know what to do about it; it is an ugly business at the best.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
15  As he seems to be loitering in this direction, it may be as well, perhaps, to walk towards him, and throw ourselves in his way.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  We prepared ourselves for the long journey ahead.
2  The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
3  We women have a lot of good business skills, although we tend to underrate ourselves.
4  I really believe that we would get an attorney and we would represent ourselves.
5  Despite the bad weather, we enjoyed ourselves.
6  We must base ourselves on the interests of the people.
7  We need enemies to help define ourselves and our lives; they help us to know who we are not or who we do not want to be.
8  We never know the love of the parents until we become parents ourselves.
9  We flatter ourselves that we provide the best service in town.
10  We used to doll ourselves up and go into town.
11  Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
12  No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
13  No one can degrade us except ourselves; that if we are worthy, no influence can defeat us.
14  We shall always save a place for ourselves, only for ourselves.
15  We are not born for ourselves.