Sentence examples for measured ourselves from inspiring English sources

"We measured ourselves ten ways from Sunday," he said.

Have we measured ourselves against those fathers more committed than us, and those less committed, and stood closer to the less committed ones to make ourselves look better than we are?

Carol Ann Duffy, Britain's poet laureate, said that for his "brothers and sisters in poetry … he came to be the poet we all measured ourselves against and he demonstrated the true vocational nature of his art for every moment of his life.

But that may not be enough to satisfy Jack Ma. "In the past decade, we measured ourselves by how much we changed China.

"All along the way we tried to measure ourselves... but there's simply no substitute for having rigorous independent measurement, so that's why we sought it out," Fleischer said.

Now we measure ourselves against New York.

We'll be able to measure ourselves against the best".

"We're always measuring ourselves against our own reflections".

"Measuring ourselves against the masters of the present, we regret nothing except our failure to prevail".

Then, we look for our own sound, and we measure ourselves against Chicago, Berlin and New York.

Within that space, we can measure ourselves against our own selves.