self-same
Example Sentences
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Back at Ronnie Scott's the star swivels on her stool and eases into Carry On, one of those self-same kitchen compositions.
From BBC • Sep. 11, 2016
For Graham the area of dottiness is, perhaps predictably, the self-same one that motivated him to run.
From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2015
This New York to which he refers turns out to be the self-same one where White, Smith, and Gooch found themselves, the New York that they no longer see.
From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2015
The problem is, the language and metaphor of his narrative actually serves to reinforce the self-same fat shaming that the essay seemingly seeks to address.
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2014
Never would anyone have believed that merely a few short years before I had been living with my family over on the other side of the river—me, the very self-same Rachel, slogging through the filth!
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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