YOURSELF in a Sentence

Learn YOURSELF from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

363 example sentences for YOURSELF, such as:

1. You should make your bed by yourself.
2. You can solve any problem if you apply yourself.
3. Don't touch that wire, you'll electrocute yourself.
4. If they say you are good, ask yourself if it be true.
5. If they say you are good, ask yourself if it be ture.

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 Meanings and Examples of YOURSELF
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
yourself
 pron.  a reflexive form of you
 pron.  you personally
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "With two such men as yourself and Lestrade upon the ground, there will not be much for a third party to find out," he said.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  "And you couldn't wash yourself," interrupted his companion gravely, staring up at his grimy visage.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
3  "Don't you scare yourself," he answered, drawing her to him, and passing his broad, rough hand caressingly over her chestnut hair.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
4  In the meantime, don't you fret yourself, my dearie, and don't get your eyes swelled up, else he'll be walking into me when he sees you.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
5  Now this was a case in which you were given the result and had to find everything else for yourself.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
6  She's not so ill favoured, Sir Spaniel--there's beauty in our line--but that a gentleman of taste and breeding like yourself now might take pity on her.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
7  "Pull yourself together, Bradshaw," said the lawyer.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
8  You know yourself how earnestly in the last months of last year, I laboured to relieve suffering; you know that much was done for others, and that the days passed quietly, almost happily for myself.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
9  But you must confess that you were born in the lap of luxury, yourself.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
10  And, my good fellow, if you will open your bedevilments to me when they come thick upon you, I may show you better ways out of them than you can find for yourself.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
11  If you keep it to yourself, I shall keep it to myself.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
12  but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  And if you've got nothing in your life but the mental life, then you yourself are a plucked apple.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  Anyhow that was better than just mooning yourself into the grave.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
15  It was a question of will; a subtle, subtle, powerful emanation of will out of yourself brought back to you the mysterious nothingness of money a word on a bit of paper.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
Example Sentence: (153 in 11 pages)
16  If you apply yourself to the job in hand, you'll soon finish it.
17  You will only pass your exams if you really apply yourself.
18  Don't apply for that job: you're in danger of overreaching yourself.
19  You can solve any problem if you apply yourself.
20  If they say you are good, ask yourself if it be true.
21  If they say you are good, ask yourself if it be ture.
22  In your life, there will at least one time that you forget yourself for someone, asking for no result, no company, no ownership nor love.
23  Familiarise yourself with the new equipment before you attend to use it.
24  We strongly advise you to rid yourself of the bad habit of smoking.
25  You find yourself worshipped by the self-same people who beat you up at school.
26  You should make your bed by yourself.
27  If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself; if you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
28  Don't touch that wire, you'll electrocute yourself.
29  Unless you are trying to lose weight to please yourself, it's going to be tough to keep your motivation level high.
30  A person, be good to yourself; Two person, treat each other.