ourselves
Example Sentences
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“We can delude ourselves for a while that this is not a real cost, but we’re only fooling ourselves at the end of the day,” he says.
"But tonight was just another game we needed to win to put ourselves in a better position to challenge for the trophy."
From Barron's
Debbie said she used to get bread and pasta on prescription but "they weren't great, so we now just buy them ourselves".
From BBC
“We are at risk of losing the trust of the people of California if we don’t hold ourselves accountable for delivering better results on public education, home building, public safety,” Mahan said.
From Los Angeles Times
“We delude ourselves, too, if we think that power will accumulate safely and only in the hands of dispassionate ‘people . . . found in agencies.’”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
