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Example sentences for "found myself"

  • And so it came to pass that, just a week after the day when my Fairy-friends first appeared as Children, I found myself taking a farewell-stroll through the wood, in the hope of meeting them once more.

  • I found myself in an awkward situation where I didn't know what to do nor what to say.

  • But what I didn't know was that when the shock reached a certain degree of intensity, it would cause my hands to grip even harder, and I found myself unable to open my hands to free myself.

  • But they dragged me along and presently I found myself chained in the midst of a line of black men and women, many feet resting in the bilge water.

  • Then the door was opened, and I found myself in a passage, ill lighted, long and narrow, in the depths of which I could see the figures of nuns flitting to and fro like bats in a tomb.

  • My companion answered in a low voice, and after some delay the door was opened, and I found myself in a large walled garden planted with orange trees.

  • So soon as I could clear my mind somewhat of all that I had seen and heard in that dreadful vault, I began to consider the circumstances in which I found myself.

  • I stood up, and by resting my heels upon a rib of the ship and my back against her side, I found myself in a position whence I could see the feet of the passers-by on the deck above.

  • I wrote the same day to relatives of my father, living in Glasgow, to tell them where I was, and in what a forlorn position I found myself.

  • I can only relate that I found myself on a sudden listening intently, with fast-closed eyes.

  • Lying awake in the still night, alone on a strange sea, there were moments when I found myself beginning to doubt the reality of my own position.

  • Recovery' is not the right word to use--let me say, when I escaped death, I found myself afflicted by a nervous malady which has defied medical help from that time to this.

  • The next moment I found myself in an atmosphere which was literally poisonous.

  • At the mere thought of a girl so deliciously beautiful in the brutal power of slavers, I found myself grinding my teeth--closing my eyes in a futile attempt to blot out the pictures called up.

  • I wandered about for a whole month without knowing where I was going, till at length I found myself on the outskirts of a beautiful city, watered by winding streams, which enjoyed an eternal spring.

  • I found myself in a country that was quite new to me, and dared not return to the main road lest I should again fall into the hands of the robbers.

  • Entering one of the doors which was standing open I found myself in a vast hall where forty young ladies, magnificently dressed, and of perfect beauty, were reclining.

  • A boat was sent to rescue me, and very soon I found myself on board surrounded by a wondering crowd of sailors and merchants eager to know by what chance I found myself in that desolate island.

  • One day the king sent for me and said, "Sindbad, I am going to ask a favour of you.

  • The gate was shut, but in front of it was an open vestibule with a sofa on either side.

  • Then, finding he was quite dead, a cold fear took possession of him.

  • If, however, I should succeed in doing so, I should live to a great old age.

  • I had not rambled far when I found myself unexpectedly on the sea-shore, having crossed a narrow neck of land which separated the native village from a large bay.

  • There was a ringing cry of despair from Desiree, a swinging oath from Harry, and the next instant I found myself pinned to the floor by the weight of a score of bodies.

  • Little Eugenie and I would often walk together in the public gardens, and now and then her mother would join us; and, as I say, I found myself on the point of envying my friend Janvour.

  • On my beat again, and close to Limehouse Church, its termination, I found myself near to certain 'Lead-Mills.

  • When I had ceased for an hour or so to take any trouble about the matter, I found myself on a swing-bridge looking down at some dark locks in some dirty water.

  • So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock to-day I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned.

  • It was at that moment I found myself a prisoner in your hands.

  • I took to my heels, did ten miles over the mountains in the darkness, and a week later I found myself in Florence, with the certainty that no one in the world knew what had become of me.

  • My foot was on the topmost round, when a door opened, and I found myself face to face with Olalla.

  • Thought was beaten down by the confounding uproar--a gleeful vacancy possessed the brains of men, a state akin to madness; and I found myself at times following the dance of the Merry Men as it were a tune upon a jigging instrument.

  • I found myself in a little study, and Blenkiron sitting in an armchair smoking.

  • I found myself next to Gresson, and took his arm.

  • It was about two in the afternoon of Friday that I found myself in front of the Emigrant House, with more than a hundred others, to be sorted and boxed for the journey.

  • So I dined; and when the courses of my dining were ended, I found myself in a mellow twilight at the Cafe du Ciel.

  • It was here I found myself sitting at sunset, alone, but so completely under the spell of the place that I needed no companion.

  • I ejaculated, and, springing up, found myself face to face with a well-known painter whom you would have thought the most Bohemian fellow in London.

  • I found myself in a lofty and spacious room, badly lighted by a smoky lamp.

  • When I found myself in the garden, in the open air, I confess that I breathed as if a heavy load had been lifted from my breast.

  • At dawn I found myself close by my own door, and the Spaniard fled towards the Atocha gate.


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