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

Then, importantly, this selfsame source claimed to, for sure, know the provenance of the pesto — that it came frozen, with notably simple, appropriate ingredients, and that it was called Armanino Basil Pesto.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2022

She married soon thereafter, the selfsame man who accused her of sublimity, and gave him merry hell for many years.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman