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Example sentences for "own way"

  • I want Him-but I want to have my own way, too.

  • But I find I love to have my own way, and that at the very moment I was asking God to appoint my work for me, I was secretly marking it out for myself.

  • You see, I brought my own property and servants into the connection, when I married St. Clare, and I am legally entitled to manage them my own way.

  • I will follow my own way in this business: I have always found my own way best.

  • It was all my own selfish, distrustful temper, wanting to have Cocksmoor taken care of in my own way, and angry at being interfered with.

  • But he has not been here to-day, so I have had my own way.

  • I want to dream away the little time I am likely to have left here in my own way.

  • I can see, as plainly as if she had acknowledged it, that she suspects me of seeing my own way to success at Thorpe Ambrose without her assistance.

  • What a look you gave me when you found there was nothing for it but to drop the whole speculation or to let me have my own way!

  • If I could have my own way," he said, "I would marry her now.

  • Let me muddle on for the future in my own way, with my own few friends; and ask me anything else in the world, as long as you don't ask me to make any more calls on my neighbors.

  • Only let me have my own way, and both the brewer, myself, and every one of us, will be satisfied.

  • I told the Germans, in the publisher's own way, the publisher's tale of an apple and a pear.

  • I ventur'd from the beginning my own way, taking chances--and would keep on venturing.

  • I could never hear the points better put--and then I felt down in my soul the clear and unmistakable conviction to disobey all, and pursue my own way.

  • You know me and my style: when I engage earnestly as I do in this business, I can't bear not to be treated in my own way.

  • I may as well go on in my own way, for I seem not the worse off in body or in purse for so doing.

  • I will just go my own way, and what must be must.

  • I'd try to get work in Chicago, and stay on, but I not only have to make my own way, but I must help my mother and sister.

  • She was sure that he always had his way about things, that he simply took for granted having his own way.

  • Parkman and Karl were evidently just closing a discussion for Karl was saying, heatedly: "Now just let me manage things in my own way!

  • I'm peculiar about such matters; I have my own way of looking at them.

  • I've learned how to fight, too, for I've had to make my own way.

  • I must work in my own way, and I see but one.

  • I should be a mutt if I didn't, so I'm going to spend it my own way.

  • I've set my mind on putting something through in my own way.

  • I myself have dreamed of leading them on to fortune--in my own way; but it isn't a way after their own heart.

  • There's not enough even for your own mouths--no, you must let me go my own way.

  • Lasse and Pelle were walking through life hand in hand, and yet each was going his own way.

  • I made my own way in the world, and came here to ask Alan to undo the wrong done years ago, and help me to get on my feet.

  • Then I will fight David Hume in my own way.

  • Now see here, Lacy, this is my game, and I propose playing it in my own way.

  • We've got a clear field if you will only let me play the game out in my own way.

  • Now let me handle this business my own way.


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


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