Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "tell himself"

  • For some time he continued to tell himself that.

  • He tried to tell himself that it didn't matter.

  • He drew out a cigar and began to tell himself he was enjoying himself when-- "Mr. Robert Bennett!

  • Why not, with a little stretch of the imagination, tell himself he (Bob) was only taking a rest cure?

  • Sooner or later, he tried to tell himself, something would destroy that--probably another case that would throw them together, that would make them depend one upon the other.

  • Now it had fallen to his feet, and he did not scruple to tell himself that it was his and always might have been his as a matter of course.

  • From that day to this he had continued to tell himself that he could not enjoy his good fortune unless he could enjoy it with her.

  • But it had been done for another; and if in this case the tool had fallen to him and had been denied her, how little less hers than his, he tried to tell himself, were the pages before him.

  • He tried to tell himself that it was not of the heart, that it was not love.

  • As he looked at her in her helplessness, he tried to tell himself that he had been unduly harsh in his first judgment.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tell 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:
    accounted for; declined like; favorite resort; good boy; nothing doing; rich wife; subsequent chapters; substantially the same basis; tell everything; tell himself; tell lies; tell mamma; tell myself; tell stories; tell them; tell what; tell you right here; telling fortunes; telling him; telling himself; telling them; telling you; tells himself; three cases; with thy; wooden roof