ourselves

Example Sentences

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"It would be good if they gave us masks to protect ourselves."

From BBC • May 19, 2026

But as we fight fiercely among ourselves, none of us are really winning.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

“It’s sort of a neon razor blade story of the American dream — we didn’t fit in anywhere, so we made a place for ourselves where we did fit in,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Last week, I wrote about the overuse of the slang-suffix “-maxxing” in nutritional spaces, underscoring why the rhetoric we use to define how we nourish ourselves matters so greatly.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

Once we come closer to the port, seagulls flying above us, flapping their wings, we notice the huge numbers of homeless outcasts like ourselves.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar