throw oneself
Example Sentences
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“The faith to throw oneself over the highest bar,” Swinton said of Miller’s long-gesticulating endeavor.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
I wanted to throw myself on a bed and cry about being so hungry and about everything else, but these were not beds onto which one could throw oneself.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
I meant," she said, speaking with difficulty, "what I have often found—myself—that it helps one sometimes, to throw oneself altogether into something outside one's own life, in a large disinterested way.
From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Mrs. Humphry Ward
As well might one, to escape the flood, throw oneself into the rising ravening torrent.
From The Schemes of the Kaiser by Juliette Adam
To think of written things at such a moment and throw oneself on them—it's like an insincerity of the heart.
From "Persons Unknown" by Virginia Tracy
