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Example sentences for "hide himself"

  • They didn't catch him, but he must have come back to the quarry to hide himself, for one day when they were blasting there, his body came out among the bits of rock, all smashed up.

  • The next day was a school holiday, so there was no need for Pelle to hide himself.

  • He no longer noticed the whip, but only crouched down, trying to hide himself, until at last he sank in a heap upon the stone paving, sobbing convulsively.

  • He had tried to hide himself in a corner of the room.

  • Sir Charles might be visited from time to time in the place where he would choose to hide himself.

  • On one side was a large bank of azaleas, behind which Field proceeded to hide himself.

  • But no one was in so great a hurry to hide himself as mine host, who had been so loud with his blustering to a defenceless stranger anon.

  • So he found a corner to hide himself in; and he thus overheard their debate on the means of punishing their deceiver.

  • At this moment, however, a great noise was heard at the cave-mouth, and he had only time to hide himself in a dark corner before a blind old man entered, riding on a great goat and driving a number of goats before him.

  • In this way he went until he was shocked to see he had nearly eaten up all the maize, and then, being afraid some mischief would come of it, he looked about for a place in which to hide himself.

  • On seeing this, he was terribly frightened, and ran to hide himself behind a large tub which stood in the kitchen.

  • Do not weep, father; for I swear to you that I shall cut off the hand which has stained your visage, even though the cowardly felon should hide himself in the bowels of the earth.

  • I promise that I will prove to him that he is a coward," said Rodrigo; "and even should he hide himself in his castle, my lance shall there find his breast.

  • But this time God would not suffer the dragon to hide himself, and Rustem saw him through the darkness, and, drawing his sword, rushed at him.

  • He was no hero-boy to-day, for next he made the big bear hunt the little Nibelung dwarf from corner to corner, nor could the frightened little man escape or hide himself in darkness.

  • Then Mimer saw the bear, and letting the sword he held drop to the ground with a clang, he ran to hide himself in the darkest corner of the smithy.

  • And as he fled trembling to hide himself, he came by chance into a great cave.

  • The wild boar, however, had not been able to hide himself altogether; and one of his ears was still to be seen.

  • In the evening, when the bride and bridegroom were led into their bed-room, the King wanted to know if the ass would behave well, and ordered a servant to hide himself there.

  • Next day he was to hide himself; but howsoever much he puzzled his brains over it, he did not know where.

  • By putting out the light did he seek to hide himself, or mean only to circumvent my incautious steps?

  • By what means could he hide himself in this closet?

  • It was merely requisite to hide himself in a remote district of Pennsylvania.

  • Heinrich, who has hardly had time to hide himself in the chimney, is driven out by his cousin's attempts to light a fire.

  • Meanwhile Jago has brought Cassio and urges Othello to hide himself.

  • He persuades the incredulous Drago to hide himself in Genoveva's room, the latter having retired for the night's rest.

  • I gave Larsan time to catch the 4:17 train for Paris, where he would know where to hide himself, and leave no traces.

  • Jean Roussel was but another of the many names under which the notorious Ballmeyer, a fugitive from France, tried to hide himself.

  • You might think that he was trying to hide himself quickly on seeing, through the vestibule window, Monsieur and Mademoiselle Stangerson about to enter the pavilion.


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