Itself is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Itself in a sentence
Itself meaning
- it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
- it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate
- it; used to refer back to an earlier subject
Itself vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Itself
- The main meaning on this page is: it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject | it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate | it; used to refer back to an earlier subject
- Possible Dutch translations are: zichzelf.
- In the example corpus, itself often appears in combinations such as: itself as, itself and, itself to.
Context around Itself
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 15 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Itself
- In this selection, "itself" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 32.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, resolves, windows, amd, incinerating, celebrates and apart stand out and add context to how "itself" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and introduces itself to history, and sustains itself and introduces, defend itself, finds itself and describes itself. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "itself" sits close to words such as fourth, isn and press, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with itself
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The answer must lie in the star itself, since there's nothing a planet this size can do to shield itself. (21 words)
In short, the BJP under Yediyurappa pitched itself as a communitarian Hindu outfit that promised itself as an alternative to the Congress. (22 words)
While Frasers may cast itself as Mulberry’s savior, the company hasn’t exactly proven itself as a great caretaker of luxury brands. (23 words)
Line 5 meets the river on Indigenous territory just past a location the court has come to know as the "meander," where the riverbed snakes back and forth multiple times, separated from itself only by several metres of forest and the pipeline itself. (43 words)
If a computer system acting as an agent in the physical world isn’t prepared to destroy itself or at the very least take itself out of the equation safely, the car (or drone, or robot) should not operate at all. (41 words)
Fury of the Gods is largely focused on the mystical battle that erupts across Philadelphia as the Shazam family finds itself facing off with the Daughters of Atlas for the fate of their powers and, eventually, the world itself. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
If the soul has the ability to identify with it, as though hurling itself out of itself, incinerating everything in itself that is “other” or “ignorance,” in an instant it will have attained the Great Liberation.
For culture, in its most expansive sense for us, is the totality of thought and practice by which a people creates itself, celebrates and sustains itself, and introduces itself to history and humanity.
Labour measures the value not only of that part of price which resolves itself into labour, but of that which resolves itself into rent, and of that which resolves itself into profit.
But over time, the Court placed itself above the Basic Laws too—not only by rewriting them, but also by declaring itself the final arbiter of whether they are valid in the first instance.
From tearing itself apart for almost two years, the sport now has the job of stitching itself back together - and it won’t be easy.
Fury of the Gods is largely focused on the mystical battle that erupts across Philadelphia as the Shazam family finds itself facing off with the Daughters of Atlas for the fate of their powers and, eventually, the world itself.
If a computer system acting as an agent in the physical world isn’t prepared to destroy itself or at the very least take itself out of the equation safely, the car (or drone, or robot) should not operate at all.
In short, the BJP under Yediyurappa pitched itself as a communitarian Hindu outfit that promised itself as an alternative to the Congress.
Line 5 meets the river on Indigenous territory just past a location the court has come to know as the "meander," where the riverbed snakes back and forth multiple times, separated from itself only by several metres of forest and the pipeline itself.
The answer must lie in the star itself, since there's nothing a planet this size can do to shield itself.
But all PCs slow down at times — Windows itself does a lot of things in the background, like updates — and the applications you install (and Windows itself!) have a lot of weirdly named processes.
Even if the regime vets and even produces itself an AI bot, the thing about AI is that AI can learn and change by itself.
He said: “The likelihood is that the building because of its scale will lend itself to different uses that could be commercial space and equally I think it lends itself particularly well to residential accommodation.
Keeping current with these advances could highlight important prospects as Boeing looks for ways to revive itself, possibly preparing itself for a stronger, more targeted future.
Mercury’s report was also excerpted (below) by AMD itself, with one caveat: Revenue numbers are calculated by AMD itself, and not Mercury, Mercury analyst Dean McCarron said.
Originally slated to re-commence work on January 8, 2024, he says the company has found itself at a standstill as construction projects remain on hold, exacerbating the economic strain on both the workforce and the company itself.
The Georgia State Election Board, once a bureaucratic backwater in the state election apparatus, has thrust itself into national headlines with a 3-2 right-wing majority that has aligned itself closely with rules rooted in election conspiracy theories.
The list is long and numbing of how the PPP/C Government ties itself into knots, leaves itself no wiggle room, and keep going merrily along the same losing way.
While Frasers may cast itself as Mulberry’s savior, the company hasn’t exactly proven itself as a great caretaker of luxury brands.
And in the absence of even being able to open a window, even just opening the door itself allows air to come in and out, and flow so it doesn't get stagnant in the classroom itself.
Phrases with itself
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with itself
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- itself as 20×
- itself and 18×
- itself to 14×
- itself is 14×
- itself into 13×
- by itself 13×
- itself in 13×
- of itself 8×
- itself at 8×
- itself from 8×