devote oneself
Example Sentences
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Is that too young to devote oneself to elite sport, and the mental and physical strains that come with it, asks Kristen Doerer.
From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2019
To devote oneself to Flappy Bird is to know the abject futility of Sisyphus.
From Slate • Feb. 10, 2014
When idle, one can love, one can be good, feel kindly to all, devote oneself to others, be thankful for existence, educate one's mind, one's heart, one's body.
From Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Stevenson, Robert Louis
It may be ludicrous and vexatious to devote oneself exclusively and unreservedly to this or that, any observation, any favorite object.
From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by Sadger, J.
He can imagine no happier lot than to be able to devote oneself to the completion of such a book.
From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
