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'she explained herself' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever someone has taken the time to explain their opinion, motives, or actions in their own words. For example, "Although the situation was confusing, Mary took a deep breath and explained herself calmly and clearly."
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Finally, she explained herself.
She explained herself, and he left.
A Note on the Text In June 1971, Doris Lessing wrote a fascinating preface to a new edition of The Golden Notebook in which she did something typically contrarian, and something most novelists don't like ever to do: she explained herself.
She explained herself pretty poorly.
She was mindful about how she would be perceived, how her words might be used, or misused, no matter how carefully she explained herself.
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You can really relate to the way she explains herself.
She explains herself in a fountain of words to drivers who pick her up.
Now, while she endures the impersonal treatment, endless tests and other indignities of hospital life, she explains herself.
So Bennett returned from holiday this week to discover much disgruntled activity on the party's social media and a requirement that she explain herself.
"I'm dead inside" is how she explains herself to Caroline Beth Behrss), the ditzy heiress who needs a job after her trust fund is frozen by the feds along the rest of her father's Ponzi-built fortune.
Only once does she explain herself, when Velvet goes to her room to help her treat a sore made by the tip of one of her metal stays: "Mrs Brown rose and drew breath.
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