Example sentences for: himself

How can you use “himself” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Toward the end of his life Sinatra also found himself in a charitable mood over an old rival, Marlon Brando.

  • "Taking his cue from writers like Don DeLillo and Philip K. Dick, who successfully blurred the lines between serious and popular novels, Lethem is like a kid in a candy store, grabbing all the tasty plots and gimmicks he can" (Albert Mobilio, the New York Times Book Review ). The heart of the book is the protagonist's affliction and his constant verbal outbursts, which form "a barrage of sheer rhetorical invention that has tour de force written all over it; it's an amazing stunt, and, just when you think the well is running dry, Lethem keeps on topping himself" ( Kirkus Reviews ). A few call the punning Joycean literary outbursts unrealistic, but most just take them in stride, admiring the "highly artificial, flamboyantly bizarre world that constantly upstages its genre format ...

  • And it concluded, "[T]he President has no one to blame for his fate but himself.

  • What colorful tie will Orrin Hatch break out as he talks about himself in the third--or perhaps by now, the fourth--person?

  • He seemed to be enjoying himself, though he looked a little anxious when a paparazzo took his picture.


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