Example sentences for: selves

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

  • Or rather, as Close realized, he was two selves: De Kooning the man had long since disintegrated.

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

  • In it, Nagel makes two obvious but overlooked points: 1. Civilization is impossible without distinctions drawn between private and public life, and between the inner and the outer self; and 2. A society governed by politicians without private lives or inner selves is a society governed by madmen or cretins.

  • The annual Christmas poem closes with the wish "may our inmost selves aspire/ to higher things, like Mark McGwire!"

  • "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.


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