Sentence examples for instead of himself from inspiring English sources

"He thinks of music instead of himself.

Mr. Stahl declined to be interviewed, saying through a spokeswoman that he wanted to focus on Revlon instead of himself.

I said no thanks — that would be like asking James Reston to send his typewriter instead of himself".

Corbyn is clear he wants party members to make policy, instead of himself, the shadow cabinet and MPs.

I ask what he would have thought of The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living, had he been a Streets fan instead of himself.

Here was a bluff rustic who could not believe that Giselle loved Albrecht instead of himself, and yet he had the wits to find the truth.

Once you have achieved getting your horse to use his hind end correctly, pushing himself off with his hind end instead of pulling himself with his front end, you are almost there!

"Instead of holding himself to a higher fiduciary standard as a councilman," Judge Batts continued, Mr. Seabrook had "held himself above the law" and "betrayed the public trust by using his office to enrich himself and others".

Instead of pitying himself, he jokes about his mutilation.

Instead of defining himself, he allowed enemies to define him.

Instead of explaining himself, he dramatizes his own confusion, then makes it funny.