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 ● 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
I was dying of ennui, and if one is bound to be consumed, it is as well to throw oneself into the flames as to be asphyxiated with charcoal.
From Camille by Alexandre Dumas fils
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
