Example sentences for: selves

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

  • Watching Johnson and Nixon visit their private demons on the nation made the public correctly curious about candidates' hidden selves.

  • What she extracts from the public figures in whose private selves she traffics is how well they adhere to the rules of growth--preferably the ones she has sketched out.

  • The danger is that instead of returning to power as spirited reform liberals, the Democrats would govern as a devious, dispirited version of their old selves.

  • "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.

  • Crystallizing the idealists' credo, Clinton declared Friday, "We cannot fundamentally alter human nature, but we can alter the rules by which all of us let our nature play out, and we can call forth our better selves."


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