itself
[ɪtˈself]
Definition:
1. Used when the animal or thing that does an action is also affected by it.
'itself' example sentence:
- The legislation represents in itself an unhappy compromise.
- The job itself had been simple enough.
- I certainly don't have anything to prove ─ my record speaks for itself.
- The hedgehog scrunched itself up into a ball.
- The school system itself is not totally desegregated.
- In the 1990s the Labour Party rebranded itself as New Labour.
- The company has got itself into difficulties.
- In making these promises, the company had clearly overreached itself.
- The town itself was full of life and character.
- The baby was screaming itself hoarse.
- He thought about giving up his job, but then common sense reasserted itself.
- The government found itself confronted by massive opposition.
- There is even a flashback to the murder itself.
- The government is keen to put some distance between itself and these events.
- The regime is profoundly divided against itself.
- The human race has enough weapons to annihilate itself.
- The frog puffed itself up.
- If cornered, the snake will defend itself.
- The operation itself is a brief, painless procedure.
- This system perpetuated itself for several centuries.
- The novel itself remains oddly inert.
- My phone seems to switch itself off randomly.
- Does the VCR turn itself off?
- Her voice doesn't really lend itself well to blues singing.
- Her success speaks for itself.
- The bullet embedded itself in the wall.
- The government has pledged itself to root out corruption.
- The cat rubbed itself against my legs.
- The cat was washing itself.
- We may talk of beautiful things but beauty itself is abstract.
- The dog scratched itself behind the ear.
- The manager of the hotel was courtesy itself.
- It will all sort itself out in the end.
- It doesn't have the market to itself.
- As soon as the opportunity presented itself, she would get another job.
- Her philosophy of life is to take every opportunity that presents itself.
- The fire had burnt itself out.
- The rail pass will pay for itself after about two trips.
- DNA carries the genetic blueprint which tells any organism how to build itself.
- Thankfully, a solution presented itself to him surprisingly soon.
- A solution proffered itself.
- A solution immediately suggested itself to me.
- The baby can't feed itself yet.
- The virus mails itself forward to everyone in your address book.
- The village itself is pretty, but the surrounding countryside is rather dull.
- One major problem did present itself, though.
- This cycle repeats itself ad infinitum.
- Life has a nasty habit of repeating itself.
- This chapter concerns itself with the historical background.
- In itself, it's not a difficult problem to solve.
- Good sense asserted itself.
- I think life itself is a learning process.
- The race itself is very exciting.