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Sentence Examples Blogger have recently added a new feature allowing you to create your own little profile page. Every culture has its own body of folklore, myths, legends, song, poetry, stories, and parables. Paying tribute to his colleague on Monday, Killarney Jarvey Association spokesman, Pat O'Sullivan, said Mick was a legend in his own lifetime. Charcot became a legend in his own lifetime and was elected to several major medical and neurologic societies in Europe and accorded many honors. Rob Roy succeeded in becoming a legend in his own lifetime of 63 years and was compared with Robin Hood while he was still alive. Florence Nightingale's pioneering development of military and civilian nursing and of hospital care, made her a legend in her own lifetime. John was a legend in his own lifetime, and was exceptionally popular in the locality where he had lived. Through this essence, these people, whether immigrant or still resident of the homeland, seek to anonymously eternalize their own existence. Each sister had their own cell, furnished with a plank bed and straw mattress, a three legged chair and a wooden cross. Landowners retained their own armed retinues, which might be used for law enforcement or in civil or foreign wars. Ultimately, however, power clung to the warrior classes and to the lords with their own private retinues. Since the summer break, each caucus has put forward its own proposals for legislative reform. Departments with high rates of attrition among graduate students need to look to their own practices for answers and solutions. But the new leadership is based on choice, answering to nothing other than its own justification. State legislatures across the nation are debating whether to set up their own voucher options. Acts of violence against one's own countrymen that are legitimated by religion are not new. What's more, she preferred her own bedroom to any other area of the house and would often retire there when visitors arrived. Rick Bragg flew to cities where he collected clips and the work of legmen, but often did little or no reporting on his own. But anyone who hasn't looked at Lego toys since his or her own childhood is in for a rude shock. When confronted about Fischer's comments in interviews, Amis retorted with some insults of his own. Show More Sentences They wander off on their own, they blow up a poacher's shack for no apparent reason, and they attempt to confront their wily antagonists head on. Not only can we produce our own nitrogen by growing legumes, but we can actually rebuild the health of our soils. Her bare feet created a rhythm of their own as she moved all over the floor, lunging and retracting, parrying invisible foes. If you have your own set of burning questions, you will have to do your own legwork, so to speak. Now she's having isolagen, a treatment that injects the body's own cells into the lined area. It's a bracing mental workout that solidifies the memory by actively retrieving information from the recesses of one's own mind. It's an outcome with which many of these politicians are far from unhappy, as it retroactively justifies their own bad behavior. Apparently unmindful of its own shortcomings, the RBA points a finger at entrepreneurial excesses and regulatory oversights of others. It is basically because the unmindful energy out in the world is very insidious, as is, quite often at any rate, our own personal unmindfulness. It is unmindfulness that is suggested in my own reactions to the members of Good Samaritan congregation. I actually have my own cellar at my house in Sussex where I am laying down lots of Bordeaux, among other things. There are management jobs available, while nannying, or running your own nursery or childminding business can reap financial rewards. I believe people are happiest when they are masters of their own lives, when they are not nannied or over-governed. If the blues is a single note that is slurred into a different tone, then we have taken the King's English and blued it into our own dialect. He took a slurp of his own soup and then looked up at me with a boyish smirk. Why not undermine his own team, so that his poor performances might pass unnoticed? Their just cause is to be able to live freely in their own country, unoccupied by foreigners. While his own writing style remains highly readable, he takes obvious delight in occult details and Borgesian tricks. During my time on the road I am finding that Boricuas create their own experience in whatever surroundings they find themselves in. They were walking sidelong the lockers to their own when a locker opened up out of nowhere and hit Mae smack in the face. Show More Sentences On its own, this sequel is simply a cat-and-mouse procedural, dotted with the occasional smackdown and pyrotechnics display. A victim of its own success, and the influence it had on subsequent films, its conceits seem stale and unoriginal today. Faith in his own decision-making has made Watt an unorthodox football type since his days as a teenager on Celtic's books. I will quote two of Finster's own unorthodoxly spelled and badly grammared word-filled paintings, and then show what the Smithsonian did. Technically, you could go around laying the smackdown on whoever you like, but responsibility for your own actions is ultimately down to you. This was less a political protest against war, than a frustrated tantrum born of the left's own sense of exclusion. He personally identifies with the born-again evangelicals within his own party. Twenty years later, though, in the hands of performers who know how to sing the gospel, they are undergoing their own born-again experience. Actually, Jesus of the Week is making fun of the tacky images produced by Allen's own subculture, the insular world of US born-agains. But then follow the mossy green path opposite to view the lovely boronias, all showing off their own shades of pink flowers. What I propose to do in this essay is to unpack both the question and my own responses to it. Don't worry, when you get your own quarters it'll be a nice place with unpadded walls and lots of shelf space. Atoms with a mind of their own have conjured up some scary images in science fiction, of nanorobots going out of control. This means that many migrants have to find unpaid work experience on their own. However, the massive demand for such nurses has led to a need for unpaid volunteers, mostly women on moderate incomes with children of their own. Whereas previously it was rather unpalatable on its own, it has improved greatly in flavour and is now versatile enough to be used in cooking. Each is very small beer on its own but the trading community has proved that, in the right circumstances, people can and will do business online. He established his own company, specializing in small-bore pistols plus the occasional rifle, and has been busy ever since. The far left was also hit by the Socialist Party's appeal for left wing voters to unite behind it, as well as by its own disunity. I want to be able to turn on Radio 1 and hear you playing your own unique music one day, stopping that flow of anodyne pop nothingness. Show More Sentences That film's jaw-dropping ending would get its own retcon in the sixth film. Its legal eagles failed to take depositions or subpoena its own employees, and didn't examine telephone records or individuals' computers. Perhaps the council's own legal eagles should consider this scenario if only to offer comforting advice to residents. After six months I'll return to be retested for empirical proof of whether I achieved my own physical and mental goals. Next to this biography, Phillips describes his own therapeutic dialogue with an anonymous patient. The reticence of our style, chosen, we thought, as appropriate to the forum, requires each reader to substantiate our claims on their own. The other streak that Gould does not mention in these essays is a streak of his own, though his publishers are not so reticent. Eloquent on workers' aspirations, Lyons retells their stories, creating a flowing account of t heir tastes in literature and growing awareness of their own interests. However, Ernst may have finally committed her own devastating gaffe this week. He was right, in the Overview, to leave himself plenty of wiggle room rather than committing to his own stated deadline. It has to be said, before we consider the paper's own circulation since her arrival, that the whole market has been hit by a slump in the past year. The mirror reflected a face which was like my own, but whiter, and so thin that I hardly recognized it. And 28 percent of Americans own at least one device for e-reading, either a tablet or an e-reader. Destruction was not an act of religious fanaticism but an act to show that the ruler was unable to protect the temple of his own deity and so lost all legitimacy to rule. Under conditions in which it will not defend even its own members, the AFL-CIO's pretense that it is building a movement to represent the unemployed and unorganized is absurd. If the state thinks it is legitimate then it legitimates its own laws. Another important point is to demonstrate how culture and politics shape borders, by showing examples of borderlands where each side of a boundary has its own peculiarities. Using a database ensures that we can store and retrieve data needed by our web application without having to create our own persistent storage layer. Venom began to glow an unnatural green color as the room seemed to darken and time slowed as Bloodlust joined her sister with her own inhuman red illumination. Elizabeth II would probably empathise with a British fashion industry now facing its own annus horribilis as the luxury goods market tailspins into recession. Show More Sentences Gleneagles Hotel has managed to get a massive reduction in its water bill after threatening to dig boreholes in its grounds and create its own private water supply. Officers live together in their own Mess, complete with anteroom and bar. The Epidamnians in 435 asked Delphi whether they should transfer their allegiance from their unobliging mother-city Corcyra to Corcyra's own mother-city Corinth. They were retracing the route that originally took their explorers to Kantus, the first inhabited planet Earth had ever come in contact with besides their own. No matter what generation reads these words, they are commanded to claim the Mosaic history as their own and not merely to recall what their ancestors experienced long ago. It's not impossible that such a conspiracy is taking place, because there are many sly people who manipulate the dumb citizens for their own benefit. Likewise, the muted Moonves seems to be craving some wiggle room of his own. We're not quite sure how you get from arguing with your own shadow to legging it up Tottenham Court Road with a video and an antique guitar under your arm, but there you go. He volunteered much of his own time and effort to the provision of recreation and leisure opportunities for the aged and disabled in our community. So he entitled one of his earlier books, thus already authoring his own epitaph. He travelled with a relative, an 80-year-old German-speaking Methodist minister whose own antecedents had come from the house which Mr Bovenizer still occupies. In Arizona, it is illegal for an individual to own a reticulated Gila monster, but not in California, where the reticulated variety is not resident. Or on their own, searching for a place of inner security Chereau's characters swirl about on the empty stage like individual floating particles in an unmixed substance. She was a black leghorn and eager to start a family of her own. When the poor have equitable access to voting, they have the ability to vote to support their own economic interests. Sometimes he would just have an outline of the scene and we would build the dialogue out with our own words. We must counter those who erroneously believe that smearing another religion is the best way to defend their own. It's a dilemma that has more to do with your self-perception than reality, since perfectionists are often their own worst critics. Sumitomo's lasers are used in its own bidirectional transceivers, diplexers and triplexers, as well as being supplied to other manufacturers. The Modus also has its own bicycle rack that can be fitted and removed in a few minutes. Show More Sentences ImmTher is a novel muramyl dipeptide immunomodulator that stimulates the patient's own immune system to kill cancer cells. And also very much in Mr Osborne's own interests, as Mr King so percipiently pointed out. The dimwitted tourist also helped detectives by scrawling what appears to be his own name on a stone at Skara Brae, Orkney. If she loses the plot, she'll be a bigger liability to Rooney than his own hot temper. Sit around festering with hate, hatching plots against each other, until they dimwittedly bring about their own demise. Now all of our shareholders can own a piece of history, by receiving actual Iraq money in the form of the Dinar. Influenced by utopian socialists, Saint-Simonians, Fourierists, nonetheless she followed her own path. He also fronts his own game show, Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong, has written his autobiography, and continues to perform as a stand-up. Barnes's principal gravamen seems to be that I am reluctant to accept his own, maximalist image of Constantine. Meanwhile, Priya wants Rakesh to come clean to Kirin until she tells a big lie of her own. Since 2000, the firm has focused on the research and development and sales of its own brand of graphics card and motherboard. Meet Lucy, a cross-breed Dandie Dinmont terrier who lives in Dalton with her own Sharon Garraghan. And defender Joe, 18, from Portsmouth could be set for his own shot at the bigtime after making the last 22 of Samsung's Win A Pro Contract. For the first time, bikers can choose the level of twists and turns they want to ride to create their own adrenaline-filled adventure. Salerno will receive no compensation for his Board service for as long as Vantage continues to own Common Stock of the Company. We were involved in a side band called The Lovemongers, Nancy has done a lot of soundtrack work and released a solo album, and we both toured on our own. They had no sago palms of their own and were very short of food. Olga started her own business, Lovebite Cupcakes in January. As I am a bien-pensant person, I didn't want to use the kids for my own benefit, so I proposed that they make every decision about a movie that I would make for them. These upstart standards are usually gratifyingly high, often helping to nudge visiting artists sideways into an unfamiliar aspect of their own repertoire. Show More Sentences Make your own from silk flowers or scoop up a slew from the party store. Plus, fashionistas among us will love making their own clothes and jewellery, while others will get a kick out of making their own foosball games. Instead of pull down blinds, each one has its own dimmer switch. She also mentioned a number of OFWs in Qatar working as salesladies, housemaids and drivers who were able to buy their own house in the Philippines because of the programme. Examples from Classical Literature Among other relics, they show the two books of Esdras, written with his own hand. The poet when he wrote like this saw the erinyes with his own eyes, and he almost compels his readers to see them too. The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny. There might be an esoteric book for the individual's own account of himself. Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own Inventions. The old Hebrew views of the physical system, outdated as they are now, are nevertheless full of sublimity on their own account. But I was of no more than her own age, and I had not yet been drawn into that whirlpool. For be assured that if I err in my own conduct I do not err intentionally, but from ignorance. You do that because you daren't say outright you mean to have everything your own way. As he advanced in life he outgrew his disease, and became a chubby-cheeked boy, health's own picture. To run your eyes over him, you'd think he could outpull three dogs of his own weight. Split merely wanted to play well, to outplay Cecilia, to be independent of her and play her own accompaniments. It's a tragic business when people have outgrown their own conception of the divine. They did not outlive their own poetic sense of the wonder and mystery of the world. But did he epitomize all science in his own person as Hippocrates did and Galen and Aristotle? Had she wanted war with us, her fleet and the Kaiser's could have outmatched our own. Meantime his reputation as master of epigraphic style increased and he was placed in a class of his own above all competitors. His epistolary power and skill in arguing his own case were creditable to him. If she ever outshone herself, and surpassed her own surpassing powers, it was to-night. You could outshine all the gilded youth I know, and hold your own with the best. Show More Sentences Many of them have revived, in their own person, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. His influence had thus far been wielded only to secure his own position. A will, most unlike her own, constrained her to do its grotesque and fantastic bidding. She had done this in order to force Earine to give up Aeglamon, her true lover, and marry her own wretched son Lorel. What I mean is, would he be likely to come down to the toon of, say one thousand pounds out of money that's as good as a man's own already? One doesn't meet these in saloons, nor rallying to lost causes, nor flaming on the adventure-paths, nor loving as God's own mad lovers. I went through a shrubbery, and along a passage beside a big house standing in its own grounds, and so emerged upon the road towards Kew. The change in Erik Dorn had come to him with a cynicism of its own. You can't keep Erikson out, and the Council of Ten has left us on our own. Their own joy at being in Lourdes was inspiring and itwas again a privilege to bewith them, to witness their love and care for our sick. At this time he was his own buyer, salesman, book-keeper and errand boy. I should have thought the continual failures you have met with in all your own love affairs might have taught you better by this time. To doubt this, would have been to throw a blot upon his own escutcheon. She had one of her own to tell, of a woman who paddled away with her lover one night in a pirogue and never came back. The little white dimity bed was as smooth and trim as on the day previous, when Betty's own hands had helped to make it. For a moment I thought it was due to the whirr of our own wheels. This, it has been said, would constitute the senators their own judges, in every case of a corrupt or perfidious execution of that trust. Mr. whitlow rents a gin, but will own one of his own this year. So much for the praise bestowed by Mr. Whitworth on his own production. He gave me a most tremendous dip and roll, so that the church jumped over its own weather-cock. Show More Sentences She was going to have room for the energies which stirred uneasily under the dimness and pressure of her own ignorance and the petty peremptoriness of the world's habits. I was sent by Major Effingham, at Sir William's own bidding, to outflank the French, and carry the tidings of their disaster across the portage, to the fort on the Hudson. In the event that the grantor becomes unable to handle his own affairs during his lifetime, the trust can provide for a successor trustee during the grantor's life. Each power had had but the dimmest inkling of the schemes of its rivals, and even experiments with its own devices were limited by the needs of secrecy. The remembrance of her own loveless marriage stung Magdalen to the quick. He pretended to be deaf, and I, without thinking a second about it, dashed along my own side of the dining table and cut him off at the very door. When we love, by some noble method of our own or some nobility of mien or nature in the other, we apprehend the loved one by what is noblest in ourselves. This over-estimate of the possibilities of Paul and Pericles, this under-estimate of our own, comes from a neglect of the fact of an identical nature. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of own? Words that rhyme with own What is the past tense of own? What is the adjective for own? What is the noun for own? Translations for own Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words owly OWLs owls owl-like owlishly owlish ownage owne owned owner Owner ownerless 3-letter Words Starting With o ow