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Example sentences for "find himself"

  • Michael, after his talk with Mrs. Ross, was relieved to find himself next to Lonsdale and sheltered by a quivering rampart of jellies from more exacting company.

  • Michael was glad to find himself looking at the dolphin-headed knocker of 173 Cheyne Walk.

  • He was surprised to find himself thinking of it; he was ashamed to be turned aside even for a moment from his misery.

  • But when he came back to himself, he was shocked and bewildered to find himself in the same place on the dark staircase.

  • It seemed very strange to Christophe to find himself in the remote little town among these old men whom he had never seen until that day and to be more intimate with them than if they had been his relations.

  • Nevil had returned to find himself a man of note; a prophet, even in his own county, where feathers had been ruffled a little by his erratic proceedings.

  • He was astonished to find himself in a hospital.

  • On the 6th he expressed astonishment to find himself in hospital and was found to have but slight memory of what had happened.

  • Sometimes the victim gets back to the first-aid post, only to find himself on arrival at the ambulance wholly unable to walk.

  • It annoyed Lawrence at first to find himself, like Cambuscan, with his tale half told; and it was monotonous to be always asked whether it was really true, and if he was the original Hermit.

  • He was waiting for them in a nervous and rather excitable state of mind, as becomes one who is about to find himself face to face with the greatest men of his time.

  • He had never expected--that was the truth of it--again to find himself young, and all the years and other things it had taken to make him so were exactly his present arithmetic.

  • He was aware by this time of his strange inconsequence: he had shirked the intimacies of the steamer and had muffled the shock of Waymarsh only to find himself forsaken, in this sudden case, both of avoidance and of caution.

  • He congratulated me on my visit to Leghorn, and then said he had read my work on Venice, and had been surprised to find himself in it.

  • However, the prince did not see this, and was delighted to find himself in love with the mother of the Saviour.

  • He was delighted to find himself so near the goal of his desires, and his ecstacy received a new momentum when he saw how cordially Madame Audibert received him.

  • Pierre awoke with a start, quite surprised to find himself in that little hotel room into which the sunlight was streaming.

  • When Pierre came out upon the roofs of nave and aisles, he was delighted to find himself in the bright sunlight and the pure keen air which blew there as in the open country.

  • But all at once Pierre was amazed to find himself face to face with Monsignor Nani, who had just left the Vatican on his way to the neighbouring Palace of the Inquisition, where, as Assessor, he had his residence.

  • And if, in the coming years it was to be Penrod's lot to find himself in that precise situation, no doubt he would be the better prepared for it on account of this present afternoon's experience under the scalding eye of Mrs. Williams.

  • This horse, about twice the age of either Penrod or Sam, had lived to find himself in a unique position.

  • The recipient was Herman, and, outrageously surprised and pained, he turned to find himself face to face with a heavily built coloured woman who had recently ascended the stairs and approached the preoccupied hunters from the rear.

  • It teased him to find himself balked by a mere country girl, and from this moment he looked on her with new eyes.

  • The path turned sharply to the right just beyond the tree and Forrester had gone only a few yards when he was startled to find himself unexpectedly in front of her cottage.

  • Forrester withdrew his hand and turned swiftly to find himself facing a coal black negro.

  • So thought another stranger who, when he had travelled northwards, had little thought to find himself present at such a scene.

  • At the same time, both then and ever, Buchanan's patron and backer was the Lord James, a man with whom he was very much more likely to find himself in sympathy than with the young Queen.

  • Leaping to his feet he tore the entangling pelt from about his head only to find himself in utter darkness and in silence.

  • With the impetuosity of a charging bull he rushed into the chamber in pursuit of Pan-sat to find himself, when the hangings dropped behind him, in utter darkness.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "find 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:
    born again; endless screw; find anything; find employment; find fault; find mention; find ourselves; find some; find something; find themselves; find traces; find water; find what; find words; find you; finding herself; finding that; finding themselves; finding water; finds himself; green turf; just below; pending member; serve three; sharp contrast; trust thee