How to use myself in a sentence
40 example sentences · pronoun
Myself means me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject. Example: “I taught myself.”
Examples of myself by meaning
pronounMe, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the...
- I taught myself.
- (I) don’t think much of your new car, myself.
- Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
pronounPersonally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion...
- I myself have witnessed the event.
pronounIn my normal state of body or mind.
- I feel like myself.
pronounMe, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of...
- Give the ball to John or myself.
pronounI (as the subject of a verb).
- My wife and myself want to go on vacation.
More sentences with myself
- I tried to be the bigger person and just let it go, but I couldn't help myself.From the entry big
- I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.From the entry time
- Hi! I thought I'd come over and introduce myself. My name’s Chema.From the entry would
- Hi! I thought I’d come over and introduce myself. My name’s Chema.From the entry thought
- Let me just orient myself and we can be on our way.From the entry orient
- After pay day I can afford to splash some cash and buy myself a motorbike.From the entry splash
- I managed to carve out a niche for myself in the world of investigative journalism.From the entry niche
- I could have saved myself a few bob buying it somewhere else.From the entry bob
- My parents say I could do well in school if I would apply myself.From the entry apply
- I cut myself badly while cooking and needed to go to hospital to get stitches.From the entry stitch
- I excused myself from the proceedings to think over what I'd heard.From the entry excuse
- I wish I could go back in time and teach myself what I know now.From the entry wish
- Since going to therapy, I've found it much easier to assert myself.From the entry assert
- I occupy myself with gardening for a few hours every day.From the entry occupy
- I DMed him an audio of myself singing the South Park intro.From the entry audio
- With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!From the entry racket
- When I heard about it I got myself into a terrible temper.From the entry temper
- I contemplated doing the project myself, but it would have taken too long.From the entry contemplate
- I can't do it by myself, and neither can you – it takes two to tango.From the entry it takes two to tango
- He left me in the lurch and I had to finish the whole project by myself.From the entry leave someone in the lurch
- I was about to make a sarcastic remark but caught myself just in time.From the entry just in time
- I couldn't tear myself away from the movie after I had begun watching it.From the entry tear away
- Before we go out, let me just go to the washroom and make myself presentable.From the entry presentable
- By meditating, I try to attune myself to the greater cosmos.From the entry attune
- Perhaps I should make myself scarce before he finds any more chores to assign me.From the entry make oneself scarce
- I found myself attracted to his mullet even though it struck me as needlessly nineties.From the entry nineties
- I've more or less guaranteed myself a top mark in my final exams.From the entry more or less
- While waiting for the bus, I amused myself by performing a mime interpretation of the Gettysburg Address.From the entry amused
- I have always wondered why shoe salesmen think I can't tie my shoes by myself.From the entry by oneself
- The elective class was easy, but in the end I was shortchanging myself by taking it.From the entry shortchange
- I'll make myself a nightcap of whisky and lemon before heading to bed.From the entry nightcap
- Give me a few minutes to sort myself out and I'll be with you.From the entry sort oneself out
- Self-analysis of my interactions with others fails because, though I understand myself, I can't understand others.From the entry self-analysis
Meaning of myself
- pronoun Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject.
- pronoun Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described.
- pronoun In my normal state of body or mind.
Questions about myself in a sentence
- How do you use myself in a sentence?
- Myself is used as a pronoun. For example: “I taught myself.”
- What is a short sentence with myself?
- “I taught myself.”
- What does myself mean?
- Myself means me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: myself (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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