throw oneself into

Example Sentences

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“And where does legitimacy come from? From the people. Therefore, the desire to throw oneself into the people and feel you are supported, it’s the kind of need that arises against the backdrop of a rebellion.”

From New York Times

If one wanted to express a personal aspiration, the only way to do so was to throw oneself into a collective movement such as the Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution.

From The Guardian

It suddenly seems like an absurd and dangerous thing to throw oneself into the ocean for fun.

From The New Yorker

“It would be absurd to throw oneself into a race with the United States; the ties that we have aren’t the same, they’re not even the same scale,” the French spokesman said on customary condition of anonymity.

From Washington Times

Said Socialist Boss Guy Mollet, a mild-mannered but tough-minded ex-professor of English: "One doesn't throw oneself into the arms of those who for years have tried to strangle us and have killed our Socialist brothers in the prisons of enslaved Europe."

From Time Magazine Archive