Example sentences for: itself

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

  • But Canada has been reluctant to involve itself, and the United Nations is considering creating yet another ad hoc tribunal.

  • Having children often does make people try hard to make their relationships work, but I don't think marriage, in and of itself, does that, although I know that is an argument often advanced in its favor.

  • Abingdon means Æbba's hill; Boston means Bōtwulf's stone; Conventry means Cofa's tree; Leighton Buzzard is named for the Busard family, who owned land here in the 13th century; Lichfield means open land near Letocetum, the latter name itself meaning gray wood; Maidstone probably means stone of the maidens (i.e., where the girls gathered); Morpeth, like it or not, means murder path; Redruth, a Cornish name, means red ford; Southend arose at the southern end of Prittlewell parish; Westminster is west of the City of London.

  • Under the novel's sometimes placid surface is a tug of war, which Wyler made palpable but which Holland must think will dramatize itself.

  • In and of itself, this is no bad thing.


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