Example sentences for: reflexive

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

  • They know that they can rely on their constituents' reflexive resistance to any form of federal intervention, save one.

  • In The Muse , however, the masochism feels a little too reflexive, and the picture's flatness gets flatter by the minute.

  • For example, nothing is offered regarding the poor style of the reflexive pronouns for I or me as in Hong Kong had obviously been very carefully planned with Peter and myself in mind [p. 183], though why and is italicized in the original is hard to understand.

  • And even though I didn't want Bill Clinton thrown out of office, the cultural elite's reflexive and vigorous defense of him to the bitter end made me queasy.

  • He found misplacement problems, mistakes in parallel structures, improper use of commas, wrong or missing prepositions, incorrect use of reflexive verbs, etc. “The Census Bureau,” he wrote, “has had 10 long years to get its forms straight.”


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