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Example sentences for "show itself"

  • Moreover, the tendency to reaction, visible after all political excitements, began to show itself.

  • As usual in Ireland, jealousy of race began to show itself.

  • One would expect such determination to show itself in many ways.

  • When it has taken root there and becomes firmer and firmer it will begin to show itself outwardly as the light of the face.

  • When the seed finds it can trust itself to root it feels no longer afraid to show itself.

  • Only, if a bit of blue does show itself there, it is the very Heaven.

  • Beyond them was the stretch of brown earth, where the cavalry exercises forbade a blade of grass to show itself.

  • Hated with a bitter violent hatred, which had indeed little chance to show itself, but was manifested in a scornful, intense avoidance of me.

  • The political ability of the Danes began to show itself in Ireland, as it did about the same period (830) in England, and later on in France.

  • I may have thought so once, but I begin to believe that in this darkness a new strange light is beginning to show itself.

  • When this weather begins to show itself I could wish myself in my own parish; but I am sure the change, even through the winter, will be good for my daughter.

  • I had now arrived at the prime of middle life; and that change which so many would escape if they could, but which will let no man pass, had begun to show itself a real fact upon the horizon of the future.

  • Her pain was greatly gone, but the power of moving her limbs had not yet even begun to show itself.

  • Now and then I could discern the dim ghost of a vessel through it, as tacking for north or south it came near enough to the edge of the fog to show itself for a few moments, ere it retreated again into its bosom.

  • To Cause a Card to Show itself on the Top of the Pack.

  • In 1889, partly through ill-advised conduct on the part of supporters of the cause, one of the most serious reverses that has come in the progress of Western education for women began to show itself.

  • Hated with a bitter, violent hatred, which had indeed little chance to show itself, but was manifested in the scornful, intense avoidance of me.

  • Only, if a bit of blue does show itself there, it is the very heaven.

  • Old people can do, of course, more or less well, what they have been doing all their lives; but try to teach them any new tricks, and the truth of the old adage will very soon show itself.

  • Your man comes nearer, and now some hint of a bulbous enlargement at one end, and perhaps of lateral appendages and a bifurcation, begins to show itself.

  • The gorgeous silk furniture glistened and gleamed, as if grateful at being freed from its mourning wrappers, and allowed to show itself to the light.

  • She had no idea that there was an inward disturbance and distraction which would show itself on the first favorable opportunity.

  • This poem, which was the first ever written expressly on the subject, was read extensively; and it added to the sympathy in favour of suffering humanity, which was now beginning to show itself in the kingdom.

  • The pressing need of self-preservation is the real source of all heroism, and in the physically strong this psychological quality can hardly fail to show itself.

  • The Turks, whose national feeling has only begun quite lately to show itself, content themselves with a queer mixture of Arabic and Persian.

  • Now the truculent policy of Lord George Germaine began to show itself in the conduct of the war.

  • His real danger was now beginning to show itself, and every day it could be seen more distinctly.

  • The belligerent feeling in New England had now grown so strong as to show itself in an act of offensive warfare.

  • The feeling against them, however, was very intense and only lacked an occasion to show itself.


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