Example sentences for: oneself

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

  • ' Basquear is probably derived from Celtic waska `oppression'; una basquería `a dirty trick' might be from Basque , although the word for the Basque language is vascuense (eúscaro in Basque), and one would expect the Spanish spellings of words relating to the Basques to begin with a v . I do not know about pato , as in ser el pato de la boda : ducks are usually considered objects of sympathy, as in pagar el pato `to pay the duck, be blamed for someone else's misdeeds' or hacerse pato `to make oneself a duck, play dumb' rather than “be the life of the party.”

  • In other words, the context was inappropriate: as if one heard his priest say “Goddammit !,” despite the fact that one said it oneself whenever something went awry.

  • Meinungsfreiheit, Weltreise , and Freizeit were descriptive nouns used in the German-speaking world well before the East German regime came into being, although it, and the Nazis before, connected the latter two with state-run programs capitalizing on the human desire to travel and have time for oneself.

  • The one risk in collecting backwords is that it does tend to make one feel like an antiquity, possibly deserving of a backword oneself.

  • Chapman doesn't realize that revelation is not a set of propositions one accepts, but an encounter in which one is moved beyond oneself.


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