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
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
When one hears the Aasgaardsreija coming, one must throw oneself on the ground and pretend that one sleeps.
From Strife and Peace by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)
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
