our own selves
Example Sentences
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At the height of our career, we just kept supporting — for Eminem or Korn or Limp Bizkit — instead of seizing that moment for our own selves.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2025
“If we don’t act soon … we will feel in our own selves that we will have lost everything,” says Monique Middleton, vice chair of the Bunuba Dawangarri Aboriginal Corporation.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 15, 2024
It’s just making people aware of it and even our own selves.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2019
“When we all look at our own selves, we recognize we’ve all been there, we’ve had our own failures,” Mr. Davies said, according to Reuters.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2018
We are supposed to be calling the shots here, but it doesn’t look to me like we’re in charge of a thing, not even our own selves.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
