themselves
used when the people doing the action are also its object
How often you will meet it
Rank 346 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 59,047 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.028% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
pronoun
- used when the people doing the action are also its object
themselves in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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None wield such absolute power over others as those who think little about themselves.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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She had few relatives, and none of them had any intention of burdening themselves with her pennilessness.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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There are houses scattered here and there, each having its family of Hyups, as the people call themselves.
The Magic of Oz · L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum · Chapter 1
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They were cheering the president, on the point of bursting themselves into fragments to do it, it seemed.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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You have dealt with the facts with cool, painstaking fidelity, and left those naked and uncontradicted facts to speak for themselves.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1