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Example sentences for "help herself"

  • At first she wouldn't do anything of the kind; but when the Bull said it was the only thanks he would have for what he had done for her, she couldn't help herself.

  • There she sat sad and weeping, and knew not how to help herself.

  • But the pretty flower tasted so sweet, that she couldn't help herself.

  • Ah, we shall never see her again; perhaps she has not discovered how to help herself, as you and the wise men said she would.

  • But it did last, and she had to bear it, without being able to help herself.

  • She always said that the princess would know how to help herself.

  • We shall live in a free country of our own before long, Barry, my boy--free because she has learned to help herself, and will remain the plaything or the slave of others no longer.

  • France is free; she has learned to help herself.

  • Once Tom had endeavored to lift Julia out of the hole, and he believed, and always insisted, in telling the story afterwards, that if she had been willing to help herself it could have been accomplished.

  • As for the junior captain, she was weeping bitterly, and making no attempt to help herself.

  • Twice the ice had broken under Tom's grasp, while Julia, who seemed unable to help herself, had thrown all her weight on the poor boy, while she called wildly for help and heaped Grace with reproaches for running away.

  • The law wus in voge, and the poor young mother couldn't help herself.

  • Her mother couldn't help herself: he had the law on his side.

  • As for sitting down and crying when in trouble, without making any effort to help herself, she knew better than to try that when either her father or mother were likely to find it out.

  • When it is remembered that he was of unusual size and proceeding straight toward the child, it seems impossible that she should have done anything at all to help herself.

  • I'm going to have some of them," she said, and straightway proceeded to help herself.

  • She always declared the princess would find a way to help herself; and I and the young ones carried the swan's feathers up here.

  • Probably she did not know how to help herself, as you and the learned men said.

  • He knew how tired she must be when, for the first time in their long friendship, she must know that she was not pleasing him, yet not be able to help herself.

  • But all the same Adrienne isn't a prig, and if she's jealous she can't help herself.

  • She's jealous and she can't help herself--like all the rest of us!

  • But woman could not, as things were, help herself.

  • So Mr. Greeley saw the purse to be woman's first need; that she must control money in order to help herself to freedom.

  • They had failed because they had denied woman's right to help them, and taken from her the means to help herself.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "help herself" 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:
    butter rubbed; each wagon; faro bank; fine view; hear something; help being; help feeling; help from; help her; help him; help himself; help laughing; help thee; help themselves; help thinking; helped himself; helping hand; helping himself; helping them; house divided against itself; little fire; long account; more idea; shall suppose; sharp major; well satisfied