Example sentences for: reflexive

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

  • There is a very simple way to say it dropped without using the self-accusatory I dropped it lo dejé caer or the reflexive se me cayó: one can just say se cayó.

  • For this term you need to use the word for fall , either with the auxiliary let (lo dejé caer `I let it fall') or in the reflexive (se me cayó `it fell itself to me) '. Either way, who can blame you?

  • a really dumb liberal article in a magazine that's supposed to avoid reflexive anti-right politics, that sees itself as the puncturer of leftish cant?

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

  • 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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