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Definitions in simple English

ourselves Pronoun

— The reflexive case of we, the first-person plural personal pronoun. — us (referring to us, when we have already been mentioned) We should keep this for ourselves. — we (used as an intensifier) We did it ourselves.

ourselves pronoun

— (reflexive pronoun) Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject. — emphatic: we

Synonyms ourselves synonyms

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us we themselves yourselves herself yourself itself himself oneself myself each other self ours body you and I we ourselves to us thyself

Topics ourselves topics

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Grammar Part of speech Pronouns

Reflexive pronouns

What pronouns express reflexive reference?

self myself yourself himself herself itself ourselves yourselves themselves oneself

Examples ourselves examples

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Simple sentences

We are not born for ourselves.

We enjoyed ourselves at the picnic.

We came here to enjoy ourselves.

We want to do that by ourselves.

Why do you want me to ask them for help, when we can do it by ourselves?

We have the rest of the day to ourselves.

How did we get ourselves into this mess?

Why can't we tickle ourselves?

We enjoyed ourselves to the fullest.

We find ourselves in the twilight of our civilization.

Let's start the ball rolling by introducing ourselves.

That was the only way we could defend ourselves against all this terrible shooting.

That shows how little we know of ourselves.

This is between ourselves.

Let's keep this matter to ourselves.

Between ourselves, the fat ugly witch is on a diet.

Between ourselves, he seems to be a homosexual.

Between ourselves, I think he is rather stupid.

We have a right to demand a safe future for ourselves and future generations.

We must take good care of ourselves.

Let's ally ourselves to that group.

We agreed among ourselves.

Let's keep this matter between ourselves.

Let's play by ourselves.

We glutted ourselves with lobsters and other seafood.

We introduced ourselves to each other.

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How pathetic. we value ourselves above others.

In the grand scope of the cosmos, we've considered ourselves pretty lucky to be at just the right spot and to have all the right ingredients for life to emerge.

We want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.

Now that you've mentioned it, I realize we still haven't introduced ourselves yet.

We're always ourselves, Rebecca.

We'll see ourselves out.

Before we both find ourselves in need of gas and air!

Not to ourselves, not to each other, not to our beautiful, beautiful little girl because we aren't to blame for this.

It's very important for you to understand that this is not the way that we conduct ourselves, and of course we will pay for it, so if you just send us the cost, we'll reimburse you for the window.

We're just here to dance when you clap your hands and be your little writer monkeys here to humiliate ourselves, to torture ourselves for you.

And then we will console ourselves with the notion that the mildly temperate shower of the clinic has replaced the barbaric methods of medieval times.

We should excel ourselves.

We work for ourselves and not for the owners.

We know how to defend ourselves.

We have to defend ourselves.

You want us to fight 3 million Arabs all by ourselves?

That might be a catalyst, meaning that, given time, those that we've overclocked ourselves could possibly acquire unimaginable powers as well.

It is possible to kill us, hence the need for us to protect ourselves as we're doing now.

They're gonna be way overmatched, meaning we'll have to do it ourselves.

We might shoot ourselves.

Let's have ourselves a drink.

Good, Uncle Opanas, we'll bury our Vasili ourselves.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Is it true that we ourselves. have lots of chances with the Czar?

So then we had to ask ourselves, where was the fucking hideout, and where were they launching the balloons from?

We should call ourselves names that mean something.

But I'm South Korea's King. Since it isn't an official standpoint from the United States Government and not your own opinion, but instead we have to understand by looking at the situation ourselves.

We have sought to make ourselves worthy. and let acclaim come when it would.

Enough better so that we may introduce ourselves?

Death is for others, not for ourselves.

To throw over ourselves.

Don't be ashamed, we've all been brides ourselves once.

By ourselves?

News and current affairs

Of course, we want to continue to find ways to make ourselves less vulnerable and terrorists more so.

Sadly, we are doing less than is possible to prevent things from getting worse and doing less than necessary to protect ourselves from the consequences.

If so, then a key condition must be the self-respect that comes from working things out for ourselves, individually and collectively.

Great books, music, and paintings are not only an extraordinary school of beauty, truth, and good, but also a way of discovering our own beauty, truth, and good - the potential for change, of bettering ourselves and even some of our interlocutors.

So we would all spare ourselves an awful lot of trouble if McCain's brainchild were buried as quickly as possible.

Sometimes we need to turn off autopilot and think for ourselves, and when a crisis occurs, use our best human intellect.

In that way, our closest relatives could serve to bridge the moral gulf that we have dug between ourselves and other animals.

Pinker argues that enhanced powers of reasoning give us the ability to detach ourselves from our immediate experience and from our personal or parochial perspective, and frame our ideas in more abstract, universal terms.

Do we want to save ourselves and our children?

Since politicians follow public opinion rather than lead it, it must be the public itself that demands its own survival, not elected officials who are somehow supposed to save us despite ourselves.

In our attempts to defend and justify ourselves over the past year, we Saudis learned about the consequences of extremism at Waco, Texas and Oklahoma City.

When my party started eleven years ago, we called ourselves the Movement For Justice.

While reproductive and molecular biologists focus on unrelated medical problems - infertility and disease - combining their technologies produces reprogenetics, which will allow us to design ourselves.

Either we will write this history ourselves, or we will suffer through a dark era that could have been avoided.

But, at the end of the day, we ourselves must be willing to work toward a region of peace and cooperation.

Are We Working Ourselves to Death?

Could it be that environmental aid is not primarily about helping the world, but about making us feel better about ourselves?

We in Ukraine have learned much about ourselves - and about Russia and Europe - during this year of savagery.

Charisma tells us something about a candidate, but it tells us even more about ourselves, the mood of our country, and the types of change we desire.

Therefore, it has been, for Chileans, a time of assessment and of asking ourselves a very simple, yet profound, question: have we done things right or wrong?

Yet if we compare ourselves to the more exclusive group of developed countries, the truth is that we still have much to learn from them.

To do so would actually help ourselves.

If we are to prevent the UK from rattling to pieces, we have to change the way we govern ourselves.

The point of asking such questions is to remind ourselves that genuine constitutional politics requires serious thought and careful preparation.

The two are indissolubly associated over the many years during which we construct ourselves out of the raw material of genes and environment.

Indeed, to continue to fail the world's at-risk children is to deliver a verdict of wanton inhumanity against ourselves, for we are a knowing party to an entirely preventable mass destruction of human life.

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