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Sentence with word themselves. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use themselves in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for themselves.

• They pledged themselves accordingly. (10)
• The others may go and drown themselves. (10)
• They scarcely dared ask it of themselves. (10)
• Very few people do it; they cheat themselves. (12)
• I am afraid they may feel themselves neglected. (4)
• Neither Rhoda nor Anthony presented themselves. (22)
• The Jesuits quickly spread themselves everywhere. (19)
• I fancy his family believe themselves victims of it. (9)
• Why did they express themselves in poetry and music? (3)
• They were feeble; they could do nothing for themselves. (18)
• They dress conformably, and do the millinery themselves. (10)
• What men need is a chance to help themselves at the pot. (13)
• They have all said that of themselves, yet none believes it. (1)
• Our passions betray themselves, and our habits; so is it written. (10)
• They had the club veranda to themselves at that mid-morning hour. (13)
• They call themselves practical for having an addiction to the palpable. (10)
• In that case it was a pity, but the Jocelyns had brought it on themselves. (10)
• Is it not thus that nations are seen of the Highest to be devouring themselves? (10)
• She lights and heats and feeds her guests, and then she leaves them to themselves. (9)
• We must cut away all this State support; we must teach them to rely on themselves. (8)
• Besides, think how difficult it is for them to imagine themselves in such a position. (8)
• The man told us to go it, for he liked to observe young gentlemen enjoying themselves. (10)
• They were so late in coming to the supper-room, that they found themselves alone in it. (9)
• And they fret themselves not overlong for husbands that are gone, these young beauties. (10)
• The little events of the sea outside the steamer offered themselves in their poor variety. (9)
• Then they abandoned themselves some moments to the unrestricted play of their apprehensions. (9)
• They were unaccustomed to much manual work themselves, their squaws doing most of the labour. (19)
• The very black-plumed trees themselves seemed to wait in suspense for the grape-bloom of night. (8)
• They are the most conceited creatures in the world, and think themselves of so much importance! (4)
• Their lodgings were not long a secret, and at length they began to know the officers themselves. (4)
• I may add that it is unusual for country gentlemen to apply themselves to scientific researches. (10)
• They had no question of themselves in the social abeyance to which they had been left in New York. (9)
• Those not so driven occupied themselves in observing and complaining of the existing state of thing. (8)
• First we see them aiming themselves at their hero; next they are shooting an eye at the handsome man. (10)
• In despair at losing all their possessions, the two squaws flung themselves headlong into the flames. (19)
• They themselves, but for the heroism of exalted natures, must have succumbed to the gross temptation. (10)
• When people do not themselves know what they mean, they succeed in deceiving and imposing upon others. (10)
• That they should quarrel among themselves is comprehensible in their wisdom, for each has the specific. (10)
• At last seldom a day went by, without one or two of their reverences finding themselves guests at the mess. (6)
• He had, indeed, few or none of the infirmities of age that make themselves painfully or inconveniently evident. (9)
• Again they let the talk stray, and then it was he who brought it back to themselves, as if it had not left them. (9)
• For a moment Lady Maiden wavered, then duskily flushed; her temperament and principles had recovered themselves. (8)
• He imparted to Ripton, at the eleventh hour, that they must do it themselves, to which Ripton heavily assented. (10)
• They attempted, therefore, likewise, to excuse themselves; the weather was uncertain, and not likely to be good. (4)
• What aspiration they possessed seemed devoted to securing for themselves the plums of official or industrial life. (8)
• They will spit and growl at anybody who comes near their cage, and jump at the bars until they exhaust themselves. (21)
• I saw your great ladies, how they carry themselves when they would amuse themselves, and, mon Dieu! (10)
• Afterward considerations presented themselves to alloy my rapture, but for that moment, as I say, it was nothing but rapture. (9)
• That is, he came of people who had not done much of anything for a generation, and had acquired merit with themselves for it. (9)
• The people grew not in themselves, but, blind, Accepted sight from him, to him resigned Their hopes of stature, rootless as at sea. (10)
• The boast will not be thought an empty one by those who have choice friends that have stocked themselves according to his directions. (10)
• We had of course joined the crowd in pushing forward; people always do, though they promise themselves to wait till the last one is out. (9)
• People are ready to surrender themselves to witty thumps on the back, breast, and sides; all except the head: and it is there that he aims. (10)
• She leaned to me to say, that they were accustomed to think themselves lucky if no learned talk came on between the Professor and his pupil. (10)
• It appears to be the fact that those writers who have first distinguished themselves in the novella have seldom written novels of prime order. (9)
• Somehow I could not predicate these simple joys of the people I have been talking of, for the very reason, that they were themselves so simple. (9)
• The others arrested themselves in various attitudes of attention, and remained listening to Lapham with an interest that profoundly flattered him. (9)
• Mrs. Hurst and her sister scarcely opened their mouths, except to complain of fatigue, and were evidently impatient to have the house to themselves. (4)
• When she thought of it, she realized that they had rapidly severed themselves from any other kind during the first few months of their married life. (13)
• Courtly Sir John Loring ran up at once, and gave the diplomatist an opportunity to thank her flatteringly for gaining them two minutes to themselves. (10)
• General Pierson spoke offensively, as the urbane Austrian military permitted themselves to do upon occasion when addressing the conquered or civilians. (10)
• She had slipped her knee already from the pummel, and slid down; the sheep-dogs were instantly on their hind-feet, propping themselves against her waist. (8)
• Amongst these sailors were John Cabot and his son Sebastian, who, although themselves Venetians, sailed from the port of Bristol and flew the English flag. (19)
• The painters, who were rubbing the woodwork, looked curiously at the invading party; then, with winks among themselves, turned indifferently to their tasks. (13)
• And if the inhabitants were not encouraged to improve themselves, they were at all events maintained at a certain level, by steady and not ungenerous supervision. (8)
• Of themselves, the conditions that surround the calling of the critic are enough to account for the absence from the American newspapers of authoritative criticism. (16)
• Their tempers were mild, but their principles were steady, and while his parent so expressly forbade the connection, they could not allow themselves to encourage it. (4)
• Our literature has developed itself out of English literature, as our political forms have developed themselves out of English political forms, but with a difference. (14)
• Out of confusion worse confounded, order and convenience speedily reassert themselves, and the tremendous amount of preparation for the exhibition is rushed to wonderfully quick completion. (21)

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Definition of themselves:

• themselves, th_em-selvz’, pron. pl. of himself_, herself_, and itself_. (0)

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