Example sentences for: selves

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • "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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