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
Broad lessons unmistakable, but points strange and difficult to throw oneself back to so different a set of ideas.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Alexander Maclaren
Or else one wants suddenly to throw oneself on the bear earth.
From Jewish Children by Hannah Berman
As well might one, to escape the flood, throw oneself into the rising ravening torrent.
From The Schemes of the Kaiser by Juliette Adam
