Itself

//ɪtˈsɛlf//

"Itself" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Your sense of humor is beginning to exert itself.

The phenomenon of interest is in itself, a most interesting subject.

Competition is neither good nor evil in itself.

Competition is not bad in itself.

A steamship is, without a doubt, a city in itself.

Strange to say, the door opened of itself.

The frame itself is worth more than the picture.

Each generation would have to rediscover for itself the truths of the past.

The fire went out by itself.

Technology is in itself meaningless unless it serves mankind.

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When the opportunity presented itself, no feasible course of action suggested itself (to us).

The researchers posit that something they call the “hipster effect” asserts itself in human populations no matter how individualistic we imagine ourselves to be, because it’s individuality itself that sparks conformity.

The door itself is quite heavy.

Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

The researchers posit that something they call the “hipster effect” asserts itself in human populations no matter how individualistic we imagine ourselves to be, because it’s individuality itself that sparks conformity.

The oil by degrees gets covered with a curdy mass, which after some time settles to the bottom, while itself becomes limpid and colorless.

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