our own selves
Example Sentences
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“If we don’t act soon … we will feel in our own selves that we will have lost everything,” says Monique Middleton, vice chair of the Bunuba Dawangarri Aboriginal Corporation.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 15, 2024
We really want to do it for our own selves.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2022
Dared us to be self-facing while remaining in the world, to make work that was by, for and about our own selves, never hagiography.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2019
And what kind of change can we make in our own selves to get to that more just and moral place?
From Washington Times • Sep. 27, 2016
We are supposed to be calling the shots here, but it doesn’t look to me like we’re in charge of a thing, not even our own selves.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
