Below you will find example sentences with "find ourselves". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Find Ourselves in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: ourselves
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 13
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 24.9 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "find ourselves" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 24.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as again we find ourselves with no, and we find ourselves being asked, once, today and excluding stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with find yourself, find themselves and find myself, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with find ourselves
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
And, eventually, we find ourselves numb to even that. (9 words)
And yet, today we find ourselves excluding and excluding and excluding. (11 words)
So we find ourselves in a position where we have the youngest fleet in the industry. (16 words)
If we choose to focus our attention on what appears to be like marathon finish lines, we are going to find ourselves wishing the time away, and once again trying to control something we can’t control. (37 words)
Karen Murray, Director of RCM Northern Ireland, said: “You will see a lot of frustration on the picket lines today, but you’ll also see a lot of sorrow, genuine despair at where we find ourselves. (36 words)
Especially now, as our distractions and illusions melt faster than the glaciers, I find it a helpful practice to ask questions of myself that align with the Cosmic Season in which we find ourselves. (34 words)
As we find ourselves more, having to fend for ourselves during mealtime without restaurants to go running to, the collective cries of "Why didn't I learn to cook? (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
As we find ourselves more, having to fend for ourselves during mealtime without restaurants to go running to, the collective cries of "Why didn't I learn to cook?
Were we, for some instance, to find ourselves wanting to consume a confection such as this, we would *only* lower ourselves to eat a Terry's DarkChocolate Orange.
Mahatma Gandi once said that the best way to find ourselves is to lose ourselves in the service to others.
We must continuously ensure that we are learning to find solutions to the world we will find ourselves living in years to come.
Especially now, as our distractions and illusions melt faster than the glaciers, I find it a helpful practice to ask questions of myself that align with the Cosmic Season in which we find ourselves.
And, eventually, we find ourselves numb to even that.
And yet, in the politically correct landscape that we find ourselves in today, etiquette is actually more important than ever.
And yet, today we find ourselves excluding and excluding and excluding.
But because we did find ourselves doing lots more touring from 2017 onwards, it necessitated having product out there to promote.
Every day, in all sorts of ways, they make us offers we can't refuse, and we find ourselves being asked to say and think things that are manifestly not true.
For Kuhn, previous ways of doing things never make much sense after new discoveries, which is why we can find ourselves looking at the past crook-eyed.
If we choose to focus our attention on what appears to be like marathon finish lines, we are going to find ourselves wishing the time away, and once again trying to control something we can’t control.
Increasingly, however, we find ourselves contending with the planet itself—a consequence of the damage that we’ve inflicted upon it.
I remember our relationship moved at a very fast pace, and we would often find ourselves spending the majority of our time together,” Walsh, a social worker and educator, tells Word In Black.
It was a little like a musical episode of Black Mirror, a strange micro-example of these technologically dominated times we find ourselves in.
Karen Murray, Director of RCM Northern Ireland, said: “You will see a lot of frustration on the picket lines today, but you’ll also see a lot of sorrow, genuine despair at where we find ourselves.
Largely as a result of that, we begin to find ourselves unable to finance our way of life, possibly including Medicare and Social Security, which more and more aging Americans depend on.
Mick Whelan, Aslef’s general secretary, said: "Once again, we find ourselves with no alternative but to take this action.
So we find ourselves in a position where we have the youngest fleet in the industry.
The crisis of last year has taught us many lessons and we need to ensure that we do not find ourselves in a similar situation again.