Word Finder - myself

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(reflexive pronoun) Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject.

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I taught myself.

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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.

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In my normal state of body or mind.

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Me (as the object of a verb or preposition).

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I feel like myself.

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I (as the subject of a verb).

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My name is...

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Myself John.

I'm going to make myself a sandwich and get back to work.

I amaze myself with my cleverness.

Thanks, but I did all this by myself until you came along.

I've told myself that a hundred times.

Until men learn the meaning of the word no, I'll protect myself in the way that has proven most effective.

I'll make myself available.

I want to apologize for forcing myself on you and I want to assure you that it will never happen again.

I found myself in the kitchen.

I was enjoying myself until I fell over the cliff.

I always pictured myself driving a van instead of a truck.

I don't have to defend myself against Alex.

I never meant to push myself on you in the first place.

I can vouch for myself but going out on the limb for someone else is a whole different ball game.

I came by myself – to get the twins.

How could I enjoy myself knowing he was being tended to and surrounded by strangers?

I hadn't known how Annie was abducted and chastised myself for not seeking the details.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

I figured I owed myself a present after getting busted.

They even tell me wonders I myself never dreamed of!

I hardly know myself again.

I like doing things for myself.

I'm trying to guess what he might do; put myself in his boots.

I can take care of myself.

I steeled myself to hide the fear that welled up inside me like the worse cramps I could possibly endure.

To convince myself of this I do not lift it the next moment.

I never had children myself, so I can only imagine your grief.

Curled up in a corner of the seat I amused myself for hours making funny little holes in bits of cardboard.

I myself don't know.

Meanwhile the desire to express myself grew.

I consider myself fortunate to have such a subordinate by me.

I amused myself one winter day with sliding this piecemeal across the pond, nearly half a mile, skating behind with one end of a log fifteen feet long on my shoulder, and the other on the ice; or I tied several logs together with a birch withe, and then, with a longer birch or alder which had a hook at the end, dragged them across.

Here, then, I made my home; and although it is a lonely place I amuse myself making rustles and flutters, and so get along very nicely.

I speak understandingly on this subject, for I have made myself acquainted with it both theoretically and practically.

I do not allow myself to judge him and would not have others do so.

And then I was saying to myself all the way, 'How well Anisya carried herself, how well!'

Have I disgraced myself in any way?

Or cast myself into the Lake of Souls.

I can't believe it myself.

I used to call myself a Wizard, and do tricks of ventriloquism.

I have myself said she is stupid, he thought.

I have to learn to control myself.

I can do it myself.

It would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule me, just because I have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, and helped him.

I lived like that, I lived for myself and ruined my life.

I just convinced myself we were going to make it right.

I named him myself after my dear friend Phillips Brooks.

Since the wood-cutters, and the railroad, and I myself have profaned Walden, perhaps the most attractive, if not the most beautiful, of all our lakes, the gem of the woods, is White Pond;--a poor name from its commonness, whether derived from the remarkable purity of its waters or the color of its sands.

I have promised myself not to serve again in the active Russian army.

Every day I stay in this house I degrade myself further.

I made myself comfortable on the sofa, my arm around Betsy, as we all waited for him to continue.