ourselves

Example Sentences

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This is where Howe has previously come into his own, and Hopkinson maintained "we are not distracting ourselves with speculation about what we may or may not do in the summer".

From BBC

"Pushing ourselves to explore is core to who we are," he says.

From BBC

One of us has to actually make something of ourselves.

From Literature

After polishing off the platter of food, and then the date-filled ma’amoul cookies that Zara’s mom also sent, we busy ourselves for the rest of the day, organizing and cleaning everything everywhere.

From Literature

“The times that were hard for me were things that she wrote about that I felt we should have worked out ourselves first. They were still raw.”

From The Wall Street Journal