Sentence examples for portion of themselves from inspiring English sources

"So what I look for when I cast is people who have a portion of themselves in the part".

It is an especially difficult lesson to learn for artists, who are hawking a larger portion of themselves in the marketplace than, say, a fishmonger or a mechanic.

Over the last five years, America's companies have handed over a large portion of themselves to the executives who run them.

Banks that received bailout money but did not sell a portion of themselves to the government in return are not affected by the tax ruling.

("Jackie and Caroline had similar personalities," Andy Warhol told C. David Heymann*. "They tended to bury their emotions. They were like icebergs. They revealed only a small portion of themselves — everything else was deeply submerged").

The amoebas (also amoebae) do not swim, but they can creep along surfaces by extending a portion of themselves as a pseudopod and then allowing the rest of the cell to flow into this extension.

By such regeneration whole organisms may dramatically replace substantial portions of themselves when they have been cut in two, or may grow organs or appendages that have been lost.

In this narcissistically driven cycle, we're really only feeding on ourselves, which is not that much different, in our electronic diets, from the cows being fed rendered portions of themselves.

Lane's soldiers destroyed some of Osceola's liquor supply, igniting it so that "a stream of flames" ran downhill into the Osage River — but they also consumed a considerable portion of the supply themselves.

Mitchell says McCain's most noteworthy position on Social Security is his belief that younger workers should be able to invest at least a portion of their savings themselves in the stock market.

Ultimately, though, a vast portion of them put themselves through hell to give us life.