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 Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

It is hard to be gamed for against one's consent; but when one's country is at stake, one must throw oneself out of the question.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace

Broad lessons unmistakable, but points strange and difficult to throw oneself back to so different a set of ideas.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Maclaren, Alexander