throw oneself into

Example Sentences

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It is such fun, pure and simple, so to throw oneself into it, and to see the answering expressions mimic one's own, that it seems superfluous to urge it.

From How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell by Bryant, Sara Cone

I was dying of ennui, and if one is bound to be consumed, it is as well to throw oneself into the flames as to be asphyxiated with charcoal.

From Camille by Dumas fils, Alexandre

I call it wicked—yes, downright wicked, and tempting Providence, to throw oneself into danger unnecessarily.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram

Once throw oneself into the atmosphere of myth and it is not difficult to comprehend how such stories grew up.

From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Sellars, Roy Wood

As well might one, to escape the flood, throw oneself into the rising ravening torrent.

From The Schemes of the Kaiser by Adam, Juliette