selfsame

Example Sentences

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“Stared at as closely and keenly as possible,” Dillon writes, “even the most elegant, precise or selfsame forms are revealed as monsters.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2023

Then, importantly, this selfsame source claimed to, for sure, know the provenance of the pesto — that it came frozen, with notably simple, appropriate ingredients, and that it was called Armanino Basil Pesto.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2022

And one of the editors was John Curtice, whose exit poll this evening now poses that selfsame question once again, nearly 30 years on.

From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2019

But let’s recall that he’s left it to that selfsame media to report on the things he cannot bring himself to say out loud—Russian hacks included.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2019

She married soon thereafter, the selfsame man who accused her of sublimity, and gave him merry hell for many years.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman