How to use "ourselves" in a sentence

We threw ourselves on to the floor of the shower hole, and somebody started screaming

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.

These dark days, my friends, will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves, to our fellow men.

Through this program of action we address ourselves to putting our own national house in order and making income balance outgo

"The only way these people are going to get us," he said, "is if we just give ourselves over to them

"That we'll have to handle this all by ourselves?"

"But we can't reopen the grave ourselves," Tina said

If we know the truth, we can use it to save ourselves

He hadn't gotten his papers yet when we found ourselves needing a cooperative mortician

We allowed ourselves to be pushed out like children.

In fact, apart from ourselves, there did not seem to be a living person on Maybury Hill.

We remained there until midday, and at that time found ourselves at the place where the River Wey joins the River Thames

However, despite the danger, we could not prevent ourselves from going back to look again and again