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

That demoniacal impulse to throw oneself from a height took possession of me.

From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick

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

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