Examples one’s own examples

How do I use one’s own in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Most people only want to hear their own truth.

Mind your own business!

Boys have their own bikes these days.

The girl was afraid of her own shadow.

One out of three persons in this city has his own car.

I traveled at my own expense.

It is important to know your own limitations.

He sold his own car without hesitation.

He wants to have everything his own way.

He has a house of his own.

Everyone must learn on their own in the end.

Mathematicians are like French people: whatever you tell them they translate it into their own language and turn it into something totally different.

Mathematicians are like some Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Nowadays we want our children to make their own decisions, but we expect those decisions to please us.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Try as you might, but you cannot force a belief onto someone else, much less your own self.

Do you have a room of your own?

You are the master of your own destiny.

Now that you have passed your test, you can drive on your own.

Did you do this on your own?

Some day you will have to reap the harvest of your own sowing.

Do your work in your own way.

Each country has its own customs.

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You'd hit your own mother?

She probably has her reasons. Who can abandon their own flesh and blood?

Among your own allies.

That honored Britannian. Using his own body as a shield.

It's not just supporters. Some of our own members have applied to the special zone!

Don't mistake borrowed power for your own ability!

I have to try and achieve this on my own!

Da Gama made his country's - and his own - fortune by cornering the market in the 1 5th century's favourite food additive spices.

AII the great European cities were proud of their own autonomy.

Who would like their very own copy of the Book of Mormon?

When faced with his own death, Jesus knew that he had to.

Here I thought I could just fly in here all on my own a-a-and change everything by just sticking to Scripture.

And we hadn't even found a planet outside our own solar system.

What's incredible is that it turns out that even in our own little solar system, there are diversity places where there could be life.

And both proton and electron also spin around their own axis.

Everyone had their own ideas about what to do with this newly conquered land.

We want to help the Arabs, to protect their language and their religion. We wish to let them run their own country and help them gradually take in the values of modern Western civilization.

We raised Leila as one of our own.

I'll choose my own husband.

He should mind his own business.

Their own brothers.

So what's he waiting for? It's time to give that territory its own statute.

Each tribe follows its own route.

The prophet said that in order to live a peaceful live, we have to mind our own business.

You work your own brothers like slaves?

The territories are all controlled by different groups who all have their own rules for who gets to play where.

It's like they think they own the soccer pitch, but only God owns the soccer pitch.

They water balloon bombed us on our own turf, just because we won't let them on our soccer field.

For your own sake, I suggest you answer these questions truthfully.

Then I'm afraid you're on your own.

We can't use our own names right?

Hey, we shouldn't be on our own.

It's for your own good.

Woody, I don't want to be on my own!

You're already an Alpha of your own pack.

Part of one of the rules of being a werewolf hunter is that if you are bitten by a werewolf, you take your own life.

There was always this perplexed look on my face because she had no idea what was going on throughout all of these different scenarios of seeing ghosts and are they ghosts or are they, you know, just hallucinations of her own mind?

You'll do it on your own.

I've been on my own for a while.

News and current affairs

In other words, liberty is not the right of individuals to define their own lives, but the right of the state to restrict individual freedom in the name of a security that only the state can define.

While appearing to own the Queen's English, Eban was not to the manor born: he came from the extremely modest fringes of Anglo-Jewry.

For although Crown Prince Abdullah has his own loyal entourage, including the National Guard, he confronts opposition from senior figures in the religious establishment.

Now the world's attention is focussed on Iran, one recipient of Pakistani technology, as the country seemingly keenest to create its own nuclear arsenal.

We now know that the professor had broken into his own home, with the help of his chauffeur, because the door was jammed.

For a very low cash outlay - and perhaps none at all on balance - we could conserve nature and thus protect the basis of our own lives and livelihoods.

It is too painful to believe that humanity would destroy millions of other species - and jeopardize our own future - in a fit of absent-mindedness.

The Nigerian government's own accountability is on the line as well.

Allowing countries to pursue their own policies in these areas encourages competitiveness.

The Union's members should form a series of overlapping circles: different combinations of members should be able to pool their responsibilities in different areas of their own choosing.

There is a world of difference between an association of nation states bound together by treaty, and a single entity, whether you call it a state or not, with its own legal personality, deriving its authority from its own constitution.

If this constitution were accepted in anything like the proposed form, the EU would gain many attributes and trappings of statehood: its own president and foreign minister, its own legal system.

Farmers will be able to buy inputs, either out of their own cash, or by borrowing against their improved creditworthiness.

Should the First Girlfriend have her own motorcade, as a first lady would?

Bruni's own life path closely resembles any number of Bollywood stars who have made the transition from model to actress.

By building up savings over a few years, the farmers eventually become creditworthy, or have enough cash to purchase vitally necessary inputs on their own.

In this way, both the Israelis and the Palestinians share a secret fear - for some, a belief - that each has no intention of accepting the other's right to a country of their own.

Europe's citizens understand that the relatively small nation-states that make up the EU are no longer able to face these enormous challenges on their own.

That doesn't mean that we are advocating a move to socialism; we want better and smarter regulation, not regulation for its own sake.