Example sentences for: selves

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

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

  • 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.

  • It is a trite thought, I know, but our hands and our faces come very close to being our selves--our "higher" selves, at least (our lower ones reposing in some oafish organs in the gut and below).

  • Ephron has diluted the drama even more by making her cyberchums (Hanks and Ryan) friendly, down-to-earth, and adorable, not at all the sorts who'd save their true selves for their electronic epistles.

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


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