throw oneself
Example Sentences
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“The faith to throw oneself over the highest bar,” Swinton said of Miller’s long-gesticulating endeavor.
From Seattle Times β Aug. 18, 2022
I wanted to throw myself on a bed and cry about being so hungry and about everything else, but these were not beds onto which one could throw oneself.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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Once throw oneself into the atmosphere of myth and it is not difficult to comprehend how such stories grew up.
From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Roy Wood Sellars
This struggle not to throw oneself in must be dreadfully difficult?
From Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock
The only thing that was to be done was to throw oneself down upon his face, draw his blankets around him, and ride it out, sleeping.
From Frontier service during the rebellion or, A history of Company K, First Infantry, California Volunteers by George H. Pettis