ONESELF in a Sentence

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53 example sentences for ONESELF, such as:

1. When we lose, just know oneself.
2. To deceive oneself is very easy.
3. Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
4. One can't enjoy oneself if one is too tired.
5. There opportunities of losing oneself abound.

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1  "No; to leave an issue to cards means to submit oneself to the unknown," said Chichikov, covertly glancing at the pack which Nozdrev had got in his hands.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  Much object there would be in dragging oneself over forty miles on a wild-goose chase.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  In your house one can at any rate shut oneself up.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  Then one had to examine the contending parties, and shout oneself hoarse, knowing all the while that one could never anyway arrive at a just decision.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
5  I am convinced that Heine is right; I quite understand how sometimes one may, out of sheer vanity, attribute regular crimes to oneself, and indeed I can very well conceive that kind of vanity.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: XI
6  But it's impossible to conceal oneself, impossible.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
7  Not only would it have been difficult to stop that crowd, it was even impossible not to be carried back with it oneself.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVI
8  "Oh, it's terrible to feel oneself so in this man's power," thought Rostov.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XIV
9  But it was impossible to smarten oneself up or move to another place, because of the crowd.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXI
10  Thirty carts could not save all the wounded and in the general catastrophe one could not disregard oneself and one's own family.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XV
11  To love everything and everybody and always to sacrifice oneself for love meant not to love anyone, not to live this earthly life.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XVI
12  One thing would be terrible," said he: "to bind oneself forever to a suffering man.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I
13  a little relief, to get oneself attested by the authorities as though.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS
14  One felt oneself aimed at by some person whom one did not see, and one understood that guns were levelled at the whole length of the street.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
15  There opportunities of losing oneself abound.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
Example Sentence:
1  Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
2  One can habituate oneself to living alone, though rarely with any pleasure.
3  Propagada is the art of persuading others of what one does not beliver oneself.
4  The historic feeling of the town makes it a pleasant place to base oneself for summer vacations.
5  To deceive oneself is very easy.
6  Poverty is not a sufficient cause for disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself, is a disgrace.
7  To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
8  Standing firm is to challenge difficult courageously and to leave the smile after sccess to oneself.
9  Life can not fade , the multiple spot color can't accommodate oneself to wonderful just now best,alive.
10  One can't enjoy oneself if one is too tired.
11  His philosophy is about becoming aware of oneself as an autonomous individual.
12  When we lose, just know oneself.
13  They all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak.
14  The most important thing which an enterprise should possess is the ability to believe in oneself.