oneself

Definition:
1. Emphasize one.
2. Something happens to you rather than to people in general.

Use 'oneself' in a sentence:

• 1. He argued that for very young children, thinking is really talking out loud to oneself because they talk out loud even if they're not trying to communicate with someone in particular.
• 2. One must apply oneself to the present and keep one's eyes firmly fixed on one's future goals.
• 3. So we've been looking at other ways of seeing whether this motivation to view oneself positively is shaped by cultural experiences.
• 4. It is not good to think only of oneself.
• 5. For the human being, following the Word of God, going with Christ means fulfilling oneself.
• 6. To work one must have time to oneself.
• 7. With this kind of disease, all one can do is put oneself in the hands of god.
• 8. One must never place oneself above the masses.
• 9. Having the ability to solve problems by oneself reflects that the person is independent and has already grown up.
• 10. One likes to do it oneself.
• 11. This process involves "trying on" new ways of thinking about oneself both intellectually and personally ．
• 12. It is always more important to know how to study by oneself than to memorize some formulas.
• 13. First and last, it is important to know oneself.
• 14. But Lehanne's psychology cafe is about more than knowing oneself: It's trying to help the city's troubled neighborhood cafes.
• 15. Better to strike out than to entrench oneself in defence.
• 16. As the individual matures, that overt talking to oneself becomes covert talking to oneself, but thinking still shows up as a laryngeal habit.
• 17. There was a study using pigeons, where researchers attempted to reduce MSR to a matter of conditioning, that is, they claimed that the ability to recognize oneself in a mirror could be learned.
• 18. The higher the position in which one finds oneself transplanted, the greater is the suffering.
• 19. Immersing oneself in society was a good way to reform society.
• 20. It extends the understanding of oneself.
• 21. When one dines in a restaurant, one likes a table to oneself.
• 22. Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself, and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly.
• 23. It makes learning to like oneself no easy task.
• 24. In today's world, what really counts is the ability to express oneself rather than technical competence or professional knowledge.
• 25. It's so easy to feel sorry for oneself.
• 26. It is a natural reflexive human reaction to distance oneself from wrong doings or faults.
• 27. Better in fact to make nothing of oneself than to make something of oneself.
• 28. Some things one must do oneself.
• 29. Seeing a thing for oneself is better than hearing about it.
• 30. One cannot do such a thing for oneself.
• 31. Look around oneself for stimulation.
• 32. One is firmly established by oneself.
• 33. Franz Kafka once said: "Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyssof oneself."
• 34. If one wants to learn it, one must do it oneself.
• 35. Happiness comes from oneself, not from partners.
• 36. The only guarantee of having a cabin to oneself is by travelling first class.
• 37. He offered up oneself for the cause.
• 38. It is better to die oneself than to kill.
• 39. When one has been in a family circle one cannot accustom oneself to this life!
• 40. It is valuable to know oneself.
• 41. Expressing oneself in writing is one of the most important skills I teach to strengthen the whole student.
• 42. When working, one should concentrate and not allow oneself to be distracted.
• 43. One must have a correct estimate of oneself.
• 44. It does not always come easy to discover oneself.
• 45. The doll-like figures in these stories are unlike anybody, let alone oneself.
• 46. It's always a comfort to find oneself in good company.
• 47. The historic feeling of the town makes it a pleasant place to base oneself for summer vacations.
• 48. Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but failing to move beyond downloading is to strip oneself of a defining constituent of humanity.
• 49. It is a very rewarding exercise to work this out oneself.
• 50. It is difficult to make oneself concentrate for long periods.
• 51. One needs space to be oneself.
• 52. One cannot choose freedom for oneself without choosing it for others.
• 53. One has to ask oneself what the purpose of the exercise is.
• 54. In the unit one, we learned how to introduce oneself.