How to use ourselves in a sentence

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• Between you and me, I think the boss is crazy. Let's keep this between ourselves.From the entry between
• After we'd rowed for an hour, we found ourselves stranded ten fathoms from shore.From the entry fathom
• We surprised ourselves by reaching the mountaintop in under two hours.From the entry surprise
• This is a time when we think of those less fortunate than ourselves.From the entry fortunate
• We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over.From the entry booze
• We can't get a loan, so we'll just have to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.From the entry pull oneself up by one's bootstraps
• We've got three dress rehearsals before the opening night to prepare ourselves for any potential technical issues.From the entry dress rehearsal
• We rationed ourselves to three sips of water a day until we were rescued.From the entry ration
• Whenever we do business with those guys, we lawyer up to protect ourselves.From the entry lawyer up
• Please be quiet. We don't want to draw attention to ourselves.From the entry draw attention
• We were too tired to take the stairs and decided to contrude ourselves into the small elevator.From the entry contrude
• We were hermetically sealing ourselves within the seemingly safe cocoon of groupthink.From the entry hermetically seal
• "What do we do?" "We be ourselves."From the entry be
• We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different.From the entry we
• We sat before the fire to warm ourselves.From the entry before
• We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.From the entry entire
• We're gearing ourselves up for a busy week ahead.From the entry gear up
• We do not concern ourselves with the nonbelieving public.From the entry nonbelieving
• Staying informed is important, but let's not lose ourselves in despondency over the doomerism that blasts our eyeballs everyday.From the entry lose oneself
• We sat ourselves down for dinner.From the entry sat
• We just about killed ourselves laughing.From the entry kill oneself
• Because let’s be honest with ourselves and each other: this really doesn’t matter that much.2026 June 6, Scott Murray, “England v. New Zealand: World Cup warm-up – live”, in The Guardian. From the entry tepid
• We don't pat ourselves on the back when we hit a target.2026 July 8, Paul Clifton, “Brunel does the business”, in RAIL, number 1065, page 31. From the entry pat on the back
• No network can cancel me, but we need strength in numbers to prevent ourselves from being deplatformed.2026 June 4, David Pakman, 0:00; 3:41 from the start, in Trump's White House WANTS TO END MY SHOW (Politics), The David Pakman Show, via…. From the entry White House
• We need to involve ourselves in the creation of pop culture.”2025 April 24, Anna Silman, “Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican”, in…. From the entry Brittany
• Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery?2024 February 26, Courtney Kube, Marlene Lenthang, Corky Siemaszko, quoting Aaron Bushnell, “U.S. Air Force member who set himself on fire…. From the entry Jim Crow
• I am beginning to wonder if we should find ourselves a different interest.2024, Jacqui Dempster, chapter 16, in The Phantoms of Pittenweem (PJ and the Paranormal Pursuers), Market Harborough, Leicestershire: The…. From the entry pee on someone's chips
• We’re too busy, too lazy, too preoccupied to lose ourselves in books.2023 June 21, A. O. Scott, “Everyone Likes Reading. Why Are We So Afraid of It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry commodify
• We'd catch the possum an' then we'd help ourselves to the 'simmons.2023 [original, quoted text: ????], When We Were Slaves: Hundreds of Recorded Interviews... (Work Projects Administration). From the entry 'simmon
• There is still time to rid ourselves of fossil fuels, not much.2022 September 14, Arthur Neslen, quoting Noam Chomsky, “Health groups call for global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty”, in Katharine…. From the entry window of opportunity
• We have become hopelessly entangled in our ability to express ourselves clearly over fundamental matters of biology.2022 June 1, Harvey Fewings, “Generational Change: Fundamental to the Human Story”, in The LOCAL News, number 7, page 8, columns 3–4. From the entry Generation Zedder
• In this unsettling season of Coronatide we find ourselves beset by change, some welcome, some unwelcome.2021, William Franklin, “Preface: Two Movements of the Past that Inform the Future”, in C[harles] Andrew Doyle, Embodied Liturgy: Virtual…. From the entry Coronatide
• We'll handle it ourselves,” said Deepshikha, furious that the campaign implementation had gone for a toss.2021, Siddhant Sancheti, A Journey of Truth, page 95. From the entry go for a toss

Meaning of ourselves

1. pronoun Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
2. pronoun Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included.
3. pronoun Referring to everyone being addressed.

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Questions about ourselves in a sentence

How do you use ourselves in a sentence?

Ourselves is used as a pronoun. For example: “We should keep this for ourselves.”

What is a short sentence with ourselves?

“We did it ourselves.”

What does ourselves mean?

Ourselves means us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.