Sentence examples for hug themselves from inspiring English sources

Aficionados of Ryszard Kapuscinski, the late grandmaster of reportage, know to hug themselves in anticipation when the following conditions obtain: our man is the last European left in a sweltering hellhole, a wretched government is on its last legs and about to give way to packs of marauding goons and all contact with the outside world has been lost.

People don't hug themselves, not because they can't (you can, kind of), but because it isn't emotionally fulfilling.

Some of their arms were twisted around their stomachs, as if the animals were trying to hug themselves.

Secondly, seated with legs at a 90-degree angle and feet firmly placed on the platform, children "hug themselves" and rise out of the chair into a standing position (~4 seconds) and then sit back down in the chair back to the initial seating position for 4 seconds before repeating this exercise for 6 repetitions.

The other students had shivered and hugged themselves, hopping around.

The watchers hugged themselves and shifted from foot to foot, and attention wandered.

Marketing must have hugged themselves when they came up with that moniker.

Those who did looked grim, bundled and huddled and hugging themselves.

Whatever the case, all those involved "are hugging themselves with delight," is the way one publishing executive put it.

The sculptures, "Kneeling Youths" (from around 1898), depict two attenuated figures, hugging themselves as if trying to keep warm.

I went to the backstage bar, which seemed to be full of people hugging themselves with joy at being "allowed" backstage.