Words similar to ourselves
Example sentences for: ourselves
How can you use “ourselves” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
" 'To see ourselves as others see us,' was the line my grandmother would always throw out when she was crabby and I was full of myself," is the sort of thing she's wont to declare--wisely, self-deprecatingly, and only somewhat preachily.
There are lots of times in our social interactions when if we told the truth, or spoke precisely rather than in a more circumspect fashion, we would find ourselves not socially interacting any more--in other words we'd get everyone so mad they'd avoid us altogether.
Watching ourselves shop.
With that caution in mind, we asked ourselves, before we judged others, whether the insights that seem apparent now would really have been meaningful at the time, given the limits of what people then could reasonably have known or done.
It is merely a way of signaling status, even if we've deluded ourselves into thinking it's not.
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