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Example sentences for: self

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

For a film project called "Self Portrait with Homemade Clothes," Ray learned how to sew his own clothing and grind his own eyeglasses, then traveled to Switzerland to learn to make a watch from scratch.
It's "what happens when too many mystics attend a Hollywood pitch meeting" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics also dislike the hackneyed plot twists and "embarrassingly silly dialogue" (Emanuel Levy, Variety ). They find Washington his usual charming self, but some reviewers wonder why his characters never have romantic relations with white women.
It's a convincingly icky portrait, so we're relieved when Self picks Simon up and sends him on a Swiftian journey.
My high-minded self desperately wants to begin our week with an in-depth discussion of the troubling article on the back page of this morning's Wall Street Journal entitled "Drop in Food-Stamp Rolls Is Mysterious and Worrisome."
Bodily ornament originally was undertaken to create the self, to deck the outward being with the inward knowledge that trouble must be taken and nature distorted in careful ways and at personal cost, so as to make forever clear the gulf between a responsible adult and an infant or a beast.