Sentence examples for instructed myself from inspiring English sources

I read Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and instructed myself to write a linear suspense story based on Bluebeard, complete with locked doors and a brooding, irresistible wife-killer.

It began with an exercise where I instructed myself to write a love poem to an everyday object that often goes unnoticed, one that even might be difficult to love.

This past week I've fallen into the habit of talking to myself, instructing myself, encouraging myself, as one might a stumbling child: You can do it.

In the interim, I hereby instruct myself to make more testable predictions in the next year; and in the meantime, I'm sure I can always count on TechCrunch's much-beloved commenters to keep me honest.

"Presume Innocence," I instruct myself.

As usual, I am seeking to instruct myself first, but if I'm saying anything useful for you, I'm glad for that as well.

DAY TWO: As instructed, I gave myself a Rogaine massage, but must have done something wrong.

I thought them how to properly wash their hands using soap, as I was myself instructed at the health center.

I made beautiful meals and terrible ones, found myself well instructed, poorly instructed, often coddled, sometimes lied to, perpetually amused.

He was not a robust child and his aunt "instructed me to compose myself in sleep, with a temper as if I were never again to wake in this sublunary world".

All of my friends had instructed me to throw myself shamelessly in front of any camera I saw, but I had to get back to work and besides, there is the matter of my vanity, seeing as my skin was most certainly NOT ready for HD at the time.