Example sentences for: selves

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

  • "The whole history of Mexico, from the Conquest to the Revolution, can be regarded as a search for our own selves, which have been deformed or disguised by alien institutions," he wrote.

  • Prohibitions against sexual self-degradation and peep shows strengthen the inner freedom of our human selves.

  • Many well-known figures contemplating their posthumous selves have been foiled in exercising control over their literary remains.

  • He understands that self-exposure, an organizing principle of our politics and our culture, is a defense mechanism: The selves we shamelessly exhibit to the world are screens, and Avedon uses his camera to penetrate them.

  • For Kazin, both were no doubt true, for he was able to express multiple selves simultaneously.


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