selves

Example Sentences

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He just gave them permission to be their true selves.

From Salon • May 26, 2026

References to past selves and ghosts are a thread in many of her novels.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Just as musical reveries reveal our secret selves, they also point to what we share with others.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

And there’s one more person we can influence a whole lot, too: our future selves.

From Slate • May 15, 2026

Turner cupped his hands around his, and they sat silently together for a time, feeling the warmth of the wood——stove and of the coffee thawing their frozen selves.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt