Below you will find example sentences with "finds himself". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Finds Himself in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: finds
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 30
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 25 words

Words in this phrase

finds himself

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • finds can mean: plural of find Frequent word
  • himself can mean: Him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 6 start, 14 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

a man finds himself in the 1× adam finds himself falling for 1× assignment he finds himself taking greater 1× battlefield and finds himself confronting an 1× cristian chirica finds himself in a 1× crusader who finds himself fighting the 1× decordova reid finds himself tangled up 1× digory finds himself transported to 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a rare break 1× adam finds himself 1× after being betrayed 1× and a few 1× arnette who was 1× as harley tries 1×

Common sentence endings:

after falling painfully 1× along the way 1× finds polly nearby 1× hero within himself 1× himself for experiments 1× lost his powers 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

powers 3× falling 3× constantly 2× fighting 2× wife 2× events 2× people 2× makes 2× universe 2× zombie 2× apocalypse 2× must 2×

Related phrases

finds itself establishing himself describes himself exposed himself kill himself finds herself introduce himself proved himself establish himself

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around finds:

finds itself 12×

Just before it in the phrase index:

finds herself finding new find yourself find themselves find suitable find ourselves

Just after it in the phrase index:

finds itself fine art fine arts fine dining fine gael fine tune

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

finds itself finds herself

Same ending:

establishing himself describes himself exposed himself kill himself introduce himself proved himself

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "finds himself" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a man finds himself in the, adam finds himself falling for, powers, falling and constantly stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with finds itself, establishing himself, describes himself and finds itself, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with finds himself

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Adam finds himself falling for another passenger on the train. (10 words)

Stepping through, he finds himself back in his own room, watching himself typing his thesis. (15 words)

Digory finds himself transported to a sleepy woodland with an almost narcotic effect; he finds Polly nearby. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

When a 30-something painter from Tokyo is abandoned by his wife, he somehow finds himself in the mountain home of a famous artist where he finds and opens an odd painting in the attic, setting off a string of strange events. (42 words)

The movie walks through a typical zombie apocalypse saga where a man finds himself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, where he must survive many odds to save himself and the friends he makes along the way. (38 words)

But he constantly finds himself getting used for his powers by people like his classmates, his spirit friend Dimple and his master Reigan who’s a self proclaimed psychic himself, but makes Mob do everything. (35 words)

Example sentences (20)

Despite their clear age difference, she finds an alluring nature to his maturity, while the teacher finds himself constantly fighting his urges and attempts to stay faithful to his wife.

Set in 1970s Harlem, Fonny finds himself in jail after being falsely accused of raping a woman, while Tish finds herself pregnant with their child.

When a 30-something painter from Tokyo is abandoned by his wife, he somehow finds himself in the mountain home of a famous artist where he finds and opens an odd painting in the attic, setting off a string of strange events.

Digory finds himself transported to a sleepy woodland with an almost narcotic effect; he finds Polly nearby.

But he constantly finds himself getting used for his powers by people like his classmates, his spirit friend Dimple and his master Reigan who’s a self proclaimed psychic himself, but makes Mob do everything.

In the backstory, longtime Robin Tim Drake finds himself in an entirely different universe, one where Toyman works with an alternate universe version himself for experiments.

The movie walks through a typical zombie apocalypse saga where a man finds himself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, where he must survive many odds to save himself and the friends he makes along the way.

However, Frieza himself moves onto the battlefield and finds himself confronting an unlikely pair: Vegeta and Krillin.

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Hulk allows himself to be duped and turns on the Caped Crusader, who finds himself fighting the Green Goliath.

When Nate, the grandson of J.S.A. member Commander Steel, unexpectedly finds himself with powers, he must overcome his own insecurities and find the hero within himself.

Putting aside hot-button issues that Jones finds himself in the minority on in Alabama, from the Kavanaugh confirmation and late-term abortion to Trump himself, Jones says he represents the people of his state.

Decimation main After the events of the " House of M " storyline, Iceman finds himself to be flesh and blood again and believes himself to have lost his powers.

Stepping through, he finds himself back in his own room, watching himself typing his thesis.

Adam finds himself falling for another passenger on the train.

After being betrayed by Kendall, Logan finds himself in a precarious position, trying to pick up the pieces.

And a few moments later, play is halted after Decordova-Reid finds himself tangled up jumping for the ball, and attended to by the medics after falling painfully.

A rare break from Romania as Cristian Chirica finds himself in a bit of space on the left flank.

Arnette, who was selected as the 19th overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, finds himself in serious legal trouble once again.

As Harley tries to plan the perfect V-day for Poison Ivy, Clayface finds himself falling in love with an unlikely partner while Bane spends the holiday moping.

As he gets drawn deeper into the dangerous assignment, he finds himself taking greater risks to protect his secret.

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