Sentence examples for lent myself from inspiring English sources

But I lent myself to it with a good enough grace, knowing it was love, for she had told me so.

I decided to lend myself to these characters, to be as available as possible.

"I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable," he said, "that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency".

Was Clinton supposed to tell the publishing company in Lagos, "I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the Presidency"?

I lend myself to X.

Needless to say, I lend bits of myself to all my characters.

Cut long and slim, it elongated my frame, narrowed it, lent it a subtle drama that touched off fantasies of myself as a windswept Byronic wanderer (as opposed to a middle-aged deskbound writer).

A seringueiro, who collects latex the same way it has been done for centuries, lent me his knife and showed me how to score a tree myself.

Poverty lent my little dabblings a much needed veneer of authenticity, and I imagined myself repaying the debt by gently lifting the lives of those around me, not en masse but one by one, the old-fashioned way.

This week, I found myself sitting with my old Boy Scout, and eventual Eagle Scout, uniform, something that lent itself to a series of such moments.

Lorenzo lent a hand.