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Example sentences for "find herself"

  • She was rather surprised to find herself speaking so openly about an attachment which her traditions taught her should be sternly ignored; but she was there to learn what the woman was like.

  • She began to find herself in high spirits.

  • A lady sat in the victoria; Alice was conscious of little more than a large hat, eyes, and a smile; when she thought of the meeting later on, she was surprised to find herself ignorant of what Ora Pinsent was wearing.

  • Miss Snapper said, she was very glad to find herself in company with a man of so much courage, who, she did not doubt, would protect her from all the attempts of highwaymen during our journey.

  • And indeed it was very natural for poor Ramona to find herself so merry, for the little white house was a perfect jewel.

  • The board gave slightly, the wall panel moved upward and she stepped forth to find herself in the great fireplace of the entrance hall, just beyond the embers of the dying logs.

  • She let him know, though, that she was very indignant and astonished to find herself kept a prisoner, and demanded to see her father.

  • When she awoke, she was terrified to find herself seated on the floor of their living room, behind a large Chinese screen.

  • Philippa wrote) to find herself a mourner in a foreign land, watching the slow progress of the law.

  • She sometimes wondered to find herself so calm.

  • Dolly was surprised to find herself talking to Colonel Fane, as if she had known him all her life.

  • With such lofty aspirations nothing could be well more humiliating than to find herself considered a bore.

  • Once Claudia stepped out on the terrace, thankful to find herself alone, with the great night about her.

  • She was rather troubled, when daylight came, to find herself a prisoner; for deep water was all round her island, and there was no way of escaping.

  • She was much astonished to find herself in such company.

  • But if the daughter rejoiced to find herself pregnant, the mother rejoiced a hundred times more, and the hypocritical hermit also pretended to rejoice at the news, though inwardly he was bitterly vexed.

  • She promised to accomplish all he ordered, and upon that took leave and went away, much desiring, God knows, to find herself at Mont St. Michel.

  • Cecilia, though somewhat distressed what excuses to offer, was happy to find herself so highly in favour, and not very reluctant to promise more frequent visits in future.

  • Madame la comtesse has been in bed so long that she should not be surprised to find herself a little weak," responded Herminie, anxious to reassure Madame de Beaumesnil and herself as well.

  • Herminie opened it to find herself confronted by M.

  • Mavis walked inside, to find herself in a smallish room, the walls of which were decorated with rows of hooks, beneath each of which was a number printed in large type.

  • And to find herself in any way a less object in Hesper's eyes, would be to find herself on the inclined plane of loss, and probable ruin.

  • She could not help wondering a little to find herself in this position, and her replies to Mr. Granger's commonplace remarks were somewhat mechanical.

  • It astonished Kate to find herself thinking of these things.

  • Kate wept and protested against being locked up as a mad woman; while he, conscious of the strong hold he had over her, reminded her in a thousand ways of the danger she ran of awakening one morning to find herself a murderess.

  • He had as little room for such folly as she had inclination to find herself on the old terms.

  • Milly's shyness made it peculiarly awkward for her to find herself in possession of a number of friends whom she would not have chosen herself, and of whose doings and belongings she was in complete ignorance.

  • This was, however, the one part of Oxford that Milly did not grieve to have lost, when she awoke once more from long months of sleep, to find herself in a new home.

  • Mildred was annoyed to find herself in danger of having to waste her time in a mechanical occupation which she detested, or else of offending a woman whom her uncle valued as a friend and political ally.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "find 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:
    expelled from; find anything; find employment; find fault; find gold; find grace; find herself; find himself; find mention; find myself; find only; find ourselves; find their; find water; find what; find you; finding nothing; finding that; finding the; finds himself; late period; meet them; prison life; reckon you; voice was; working party