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Example sentences for "tell myself"

  • I tell myself I have no right to such feelings; it is wrong: be aware of the beauty around you, I say.

  • I try to tell myself this is her happiest time and struggle to write a poem for her wedding.

  • But, still I tell myself, "Well, never mind; we shall see.

  • Very well," I tell myself, "this is best.

  • I am attacked by it at times, like any one else; but when it so happens, I tell myself that it shall soon be over, and always keep my word.

  • I tell myself, 'I shall see him no more,' the thought may kill me; happy if it does.

  • I try to tell myself that I will take the child and go away, and crush my own hopes and yearnings, and give my life to him.

  • I am a grown woman, and I am not afraid of words; I tell myself this a hundred times; and it is true--and yet there is a way in which it is not true.

  • No, I am not insane, I tell myself; I am not insane!

  • Some day, oh, some day, I tell myself--you will no lonnger play and trifle with me and my soul!

  • I hardly know how to tell myself, under these circumstances, what I wish about Hammond's mission, because the panic here is so disgraceful, that the country will not allow us to do them justice.

  • There are days and nights at a time when I tell myself that I ought to believe what my husband believes, that I ought never have allowed myself to think of anything else.

  • I try to tell myself that I dealt with him frankly from the beginning.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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