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

To think of written things at such a moment and throw oneself on them—it's like an insincerity of the heart.

From "Persons Unknown" by Tracy, Virginia

How much easier, then, to throw oneself on the superior educational qualifications of the German military machine.

From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

That demoniacal impulse to throw oneself from a height took possession of me.

From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick