ITSELF in a Sentence

Learn ITSELF 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.
360 example sentences for ITSELF, such as:
1. The baby can't feed itself yet.
2. True love shows itself in time of need.
3. The South could only turn in upon itself.
4. Programming the video is simplicity itself.
5. The paper had intended to base itself in London.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ITSELF
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  When he came back Mattie had set the teapot on the table and the cat was rubbing itself persuasively against her ankles.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  As her young brown head detached itself against the patch-work cushion that habitually framed his wife's gaunt countenance, Ethan had a momentary shock.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  The cat, who had been a puzzled observer of these unusual movements, jumped up into Zeena's chair, rolled itself into a ball, and lay watching them with narrowed eyes.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
4  His alteration of mood seemed to have communicated itself to Mattie.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
5  To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death-warrant.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  But the thought of a definite rupture had never come to him, and even now could not lodge itself in his mind.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
7  The cat rubbed itself ingratiatingly against her, and she said "Good Pussy," stooped to stroke it and gave it a scrap of meat from her plate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
8  Ethan, rising on his elbow, watched the landscape whiten and shape itself under the sculpture of the moon.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
9  But suddenly his wife's face, with twisted monstrous lineaments, thrust itself between him and his goal, and he made an instinctive movement to brush it aside.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  She was a tall woman, standing a head higher than her fiery little husband, but she moved with such quiet grace in her swaying hoops that the height attracted no attention to itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  By the time Scarlett had undressed and blown out the candle, her plan for tomorrow had worked itself out in every detail.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  As Melanie looked at Ashley, her plain face lit up as with an inner fire, for if ever a loving heart showed itself upon a face, it was showing now on Melanie Hamilton's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  Coolness was beginning to come back to her and her mind was collecting itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  Restless, energetic people from the older sections of Georgia and from more distant states were drawn to this town that sprawled itself around the junction of the railroads in its center.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  The South could only turn in upon itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (150 in 11 pages)
1  If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
2  Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.
3  A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
4  The local authority could find itself in the invidious position of having to refuse.
5  The baby can't feed itself yet.
6  The paper had intended to base itself in London.
7  The regiment covered itself with glory in the invasion battle.
8  Britain has allied itself with other western powers for trade and defence.
9  True love shows itself in time of need.
10  This TV play does not seem to commend itself to me.
11  Religious faith expresses itself in a variety of ways.
12  Programming the video is simplicity itself.
13  Press this button and the video will automatically tune itself to the next channel.
14  In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
15  You will never enjoy the world aright, till he sea itself floweth in your vein, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.