Sentence examples for measured himself from inspiring English sources

He measured himself against the returning players, comparing his skill level to theirs.

He says, however, that he has measured himself against the young pop star in other ways.

In 2009 Tate Britain staged Turner and the Masters which looked at the way Turner measured himself against earlier painters.

There was no No. 2. Part of it was his perfectionism; he always measured himself against H. L. Mencken, the bard of Baltimore".

But because the new state-prescribed limit for male waistlines is a strict 33.5 inches, he had anxiously measured himself at home a couple of days earlier.

Otto had measured himself against the political tasks that had faced his East Frankish predecessors and more or less mastered them.

Reesing, the once too-small quarterback prospect, is too self aware to measure himself by others.

Still, Mr. Rather measures himself against only two yardsticks: Mr. Brokaw and Mr. Jennings.

The only thing he wanted to measure himself against was the river.

But he continued to measure himself on the yardstick of the Great American Novel.

But truth and substance weren't the metrics the Mittster was measuring himself against last night.