Themselves

//ðɛmˈsɛlvz//

"Themselves" in a Sentence (21 examples)

I don't like it when mathematicians who know much more than I do can't express themselves explicitly.

If you take care of the small things, the big things will take care of themselves.

Teachers stimulate the students' interest, have them think, ask questions, and debate among themselves.

In the days of the knights, they wore shields to protect themselves from sword-fight wounds.

It is impossible to substitute machines for people themselves.

You had better leave the students to find out for themselves.

It is taken for granted that students know how to express themselves.

In foreign countries, especially in Western countries, students are encouraged to express and develop themselves as individuals.

Japanese children brought up overseas sometimes face great difficulty in adjusting themselves to Japanese schools after returning, even though they have a perfect command of Japanese.

In the long summer days she sat in the sun and watched the trees cover themselves with leaves, and the white daisies cover the hill.

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They’ve hurt themselves.

They fought among themselves.

They are going to try climbing Mount Everest themselves.

The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.

The real drama came as these two camps fought for undecideds, who literally found themselves in the middle.

Would whoever stole my phone please make themselves known.

I don't want anyone to fight among themselves.

Everyone must do it themselves.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

In fact she was so busy doing all the things that anyone might, who finds themselves alone in an empty house, that she did not notice at first when it began to turn dusk and the rooms to grow dim.

“Anyone who has experienced or witnessed an anaphylaxis reaction knows it can be very stressful deciding when to inject epinephrine to themselves or a child and often delay,” Dr. Jonathan Spergel, chief of the allergy program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said in a news release from ARS Pharmaceuticals.

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