SELF in a Sentence
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164 example sentences for SELF, such as:
1. To know one's self is true progress.
2. A friend is, as it were, a second self.
3. You'll soon be feeling your old self again.
4. We love others too early, self love too late.
5. The hero of the film finally finds his true self.
2. A friend is, as it were, a second self.
3. You'll soon be feeling your old self again.
4. We love others too early, self love too late.
5. The hero of the film finally finds his true self.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SELF
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self
n. a person considered as a unique individual
n. your consciousness of your own identity
Classic Sentence: (125 in 9 pages)
1 But for all the modesty of her spreading skirts, the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon and the quietness of small white hands folded in her lap, her true self was poorly concealed.
2 From the moment she arrived at Twelve Oaks, she would be her gayest, most spirited self.
3 It would never do to appear schoolgirlish beside Melanie's poised self.
4 They wanted her for her own self because they loved her.
5 She must look and be her prettiest and most unconcerned self.
6 He said the old gentleman looked like his old self for the first time since your ma died.
7 Perhaps he might be his old self again, be the Ashley she had known before the barbecue, before any word of love had been spoken between them.
8 However, he had been his usual bland self at those times, and never by look or word showed that such a scene had taken place between them.
9 If one did drag one's self out of bed at such an hour, and come down fresh and radiant to the monotony of note-writing, some special recognition of the sacrifice seemed fitting.
10 It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
11 But all the while another self was sharpening her to vigilance, whispering the terrified warning that every word and gesture must be measured.
12 He was closer still, with a hand that grew formidable; and the frightened self in her was dragging the other down.
13 But the sense of loneliness returned with redoubled force as she saw herself forever shut out from Selden's inmost self.
14 She understood now that she could not go forth and leave her old self with him: that self must indeed live on in his presence, but it must still continue to be hers.
15 It was as though a great blaze of electric light had been turned on in her head, and her poor little anguished self shrank and cowered in it, without knowing where to take refuge.
Example Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1 It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
2 A friend is, as it were, a second self.
3 She has become the self - appointed guardian of the nation's conscience.
4 Johnson returned to the track after his ban but was a shadow of his former self.
5 To know one's self is true progress.
6 The hero of the film finally finds his true self.
7 Peter was the only one to whom she showed her true self.
8 Both superpowers shared the same instinct for self - preservation.
9 They continue to preach their gospel of self - reliance.
10 We love others too early, self love too late.
11 Easy to hurt others and self, always to the edge of the distance unclear person.
12 That outburst was a typical example of his lack of self - control.
13 You'll soon be feeling your old self again.
14 She allowed herself only a few moments'indulgence in self - pity.
15 A few months living away from home have given him renewed self - confidence.