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Example sentences for: selves

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

Laibson's imperfect altruists face a far subtler problem--they're not just weighing costs and benefits, they're engaged in games of strategy against their future selves.
The annual Christmas poem closes with the wish "may our inmost selves aspire/ to higher things, like Mark McGwire!"
The Simpsons are our truest, best selves: stupid--maybe; lazy--you bet; suspicious of authority--always; willing to do anything about it--not really; but above all, loyal to our spouses, our children, our little sisters, our friends, our hometowns, our bad haircuts, and our favorite brand of beer.
Many well-known figures contemplating their posthumous selves have been foiled in exercising control over their literary remains.
"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.