selfsame

Example Sentences

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The museum is the creation of the selfsame luxury watchmaker, which two watchmakers founded in a building next door in 1875.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2023

“Stared at as closely and keenly as possible,” Dillon writes, “even the most elegant, precise or selfsame forms are revealed as monsters.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2023

Instead of reflection on that point, we have to grapple with the fact that it comes from the selfsame jurists who see every critique of their own conduct as intolerable.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2022

And one of the editors was John Curtice, whose exit poll this evening now poses that selfsame question once again, nearly 30 years on.

From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2019

At this selfsame moment J.W. came awake and backed out of Lloyd’s lap, which was perfect.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck