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Example sentences for "gives himself"

  • And so Christ our Lord, according to the deep words of one of Paul's letters, 'gives Himself for us, that He might purchase unto Himself a people for His possession.

  • He plays with his tongue as a cat does with her tail, and is transported with the delight he gives himself of his own making.

  • Think how he gives himself to them in earnest; how he is at their disposal.

  • He becomes theirs in a great intimacy, he gives himself to them.

  • For the rest of the evening he gives himself up to Marian--devoting himself to her; telling himself he is knowing the old sweet happiness again, but always with a strange unaccountable sting at his heart.

  • He flings his cigar into the fire, and, seating himself on the edge or the table, gives himself up a prey to evil prognostications.

  • He gives himself a little shake, as men do when airing themselves before a fire in mid-winter.

  • They are something He has now outgrown, something He must now lay aside, as He gives Himself to the world at large.

  • He gives Himself up passively to the woman's will.

  • He gives himself only to those with whom unconsciousness is a daily habit, with whom the joy of letting one's self go is one of the great resources of life.

  • A man knows Shakespeare in proportion as he gives himself, in proportion as he lets Shakespeare make a Shakespeare of him, a little while.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gives himself" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    body length; caustic potassa; complete list; feels like; gives birth; gives himself; gives rise; gives the; gives the following account; gives them; glass darkly; had learned; having charge; horses and; organic body; public expenditure; resemble those; satisfy their; scarcely necessary; shall first; shall like; sore throat; sufficiently done; take notice; then shall; whispered back