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Example sentences for "make himself"

  • Being still a bachelor, and being always ready to make himself agreeable, he was generally popular in the society of women.

  • The florid gentleman (still privately believing it to be all "humbug") was delighted to make himself of any use.

  • Depend upon it, he'll make himself miserable if he can,' said Tuckham.

  • Or that was the impression conveyed to a not unsympathetic hearer by his forlorn efforts to make himself understood, which were like the tappings of the stick of a blind man mystified by his sense of touch at wrong corners.

  • In spite of his strong love, and his anxious desire to make himself agreeable, his brow became somewhat darkened, and his lips somewhat compressed.

  • Alaric you saw was able to make himself happy, and I am sure he is not more indifferent to us than you are.

  • He knew also-- a knowledge much more difficult to acquire--how to live among men so as never to make himself disagreeable.

  • Mr. Neverbend did not know what to make of his companion; whether to admire the high tone of his official honesty, or to reprobate his idleness in refusing to make himself master of the report.

  • And if she tried to punish him, he would threaten to make himself ill.

  • Christophe accepted, and, as usual, did not take any trouble to make himself pleasant.

  • The cardinal, when intent on some sanguinary scheme requiring unusual vitality and vigour, contrived to make himself look a harmless sufferer at death's door.

  • The position was not quite so pleasant as, theoretically, he had deemed it; but he resolved to make himself as comfortable as he could.

  • Amongst all these various persons, Harley, so long a stranger to the London world, seemed to make himself at home with the ease of an Alcibiades.

  • Dick, dropping his kid gloves into his hat, and then placing the hat on the table, with the air of an old acquaintance who wishes to make himself at home.

  • For instance: suppose a man should tell that Johnson, before setting out for Italy, as he had to cross the Alps, sat down to make himself wings.

  • Any one," he would say, "might become quite as good a critic as I am, if he would only take the trouble to make himself so.

  • The last boy in the world to make himself conspicuous or cause public disturbance, Jolly grew rather red and shut his lips.

  • He had never quite grown out of the feeling that to make himself conspicuous in any way was bad form.

  • The statement was correct, and Shelton, placing some garments in the bath-room, invited his visitor to make himself at home.

  • Jesus Christ did come to make Himself a sacrifice, or to offer Himself for sin, you may understand that our sins were indeed charged to purpose upon Him.

  • Would one in his wits think to make himself fine or acceptable to men by arraying himself in menstruous cloths, or by painting his face with dross and dung?

  • The traveller hires a room which is destitute of all furniture; provides his own bedding and cooking utensils, purchases provisions and a sufficiency of charcoal, and proceeds to make himself comfortable.

  • As I evince a disposition to override their well-meant interference and pull out, they hurriedly send for a Frenchman, who can speak sufficient English to make himself intelligible.

  • He contrived to make himself heir of Linne without the disagreeable ceremony of 'telling down the good red gold.

  • A good many roots and plants can generally be found in such places, and by digging them up, Tam was soon able to make himself a number of bright and lively beds.

  • The boy now began to make himself a little botanical garden in the back yard of his mother's house--a piece of waste ground covered with rubbish, such as one often sees behind the poorer class of cottages in towns.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "make 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:
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