Example sentences for: itself

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

  • Finally, this research focused on one chemical and just a few industrial processes and may or may not apply to other cases, especially those with more specialized processes, or where the hazard in question is a formulated constituent of a company's product and change would require re-engineering of the product itself, rather than of an auxiliary process.

  • Roy's inventive narrative style (multiple flashbacks, rotating narrators) and "the exuberant, almost acrobatic nature of the writing itself" (Alice Truax, the New York Times Book Review ) are singled out as breathtaking.

  • The German word for silk stockings escaped me, but the English word hose promptly suggested itself to my mind.

  • Some 40 readers responded to the last "Good Word" column, on yadda yadda yadda . Two of them, Steve Gelmis and Martin Zacks, independently remembered the expression from a Lenny Bruce routine, which itself was a parody of dialogue in a prison movie.

  • 2, 2001 (in which Nashiri is described as widely known to be one of al Qaeda's most committed terrorists and, according to one of his mujahideen colleagues, so extreme in his ferocity in waging jihad that he "would commit a terrorist act 'in Mecca inside the Ka'aba itself ' [the holiest site in Islam] if he believed there was a need to do so").


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