devote oneself
Example Sentences
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Is that too young to devote oneself to elite sport, and the mental and physical strains that come with it, asks Kristen Doerer.
From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2019
To devote oneself to Flappy Bird is to know the abject futility of Sisyphus.
From Slate • Feb. 10, 2014
Is it worth while to devote oneself to a trade, in which the meanest broad-shouldered noúker can surpass me?...
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various
When idle, one can love, one can be good, feel kindly to all, devote oneself to others, be thankful for existence, educate one's mind, one's heart, one's body.
From Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Stevenson, Robert Louis
But what made Guillettes so bewitching a residence were the woods and canals surrounding it, in which one could devote oneself to the pleasures of angling and the chase.
From The Seven Wives Of Bluebeard 1920 by Stewart, D. B.
