Sentence examples for lower ourselves from inspiring English sources

We found a length of rope and used it to lower ourselves.

If we could hoist ourselves over it, I thought, we could use the rope to lower ourselves to the street.

She switches on the lights, which makes the room seem hotter, and we lower ourselves into the easy chairs.

Twenty feet away, on a shelf outside the kitchen, was a car towrope we planned to use to lower ourselves down a 15-foot wall ringing the compound.

McCain, who expressed concern that the images could damage the war effort, had said: "The Marine Corps prides itself that we don't lower ourselves to the level of the enemy.

We fling the scorps as far as we can across the brown and withering lawn, chase the ducks and geese out, and then lower ourselves gingerly into the pool, whose sides wave green and long and soft and grasping with algae.

We lowered ourselves via steps at the end of each lane and once all competitors' shoulders were below the water's surface we were given our starting orders.

Edina, Sarah, and I all slipped on our headsocks and lowered ourselves down to the floor on our hands and knees.

The atmosphere, Mr. Patel wrote, "stinks in my nostrils and I wonder to what depths of intrigues and manoeuvrings [sic] we have lowered ourselves".

We also worked on our thermal bathing skills, lowering ourselves into the lake where streaks of brilliantly coloured algae betrayed the presence of a hot mineral spring, alternately gasping and cursing in the freezing and scalding currents.

Before dinner, the boys and I pulled wooden planks off the Japanese family bath on the ground floor and lowered ourselves into the steaming water for our first soak in an ofuro.