Sentence examples for speaking to himself from inspiring English sources

The phrase "speaking to himself" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when someone is talking to themselves out loud. For example, Jim was walking home from school, muttering angrily and speaking to himself.

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Was he announcing the news to followers or speaking to himself, as if in disbelief?

Then, as though speaking to himself, he said, "It takes a lot to get there".

Mr. Cruz may love the spotlight, but, when it fades, he will find he was only speaking to himself.

This may sound repentant, but it is not the poet speaking to himself in the second person.

There is the love and the — substitutions, the surrogate attachments, doomed to brief duration, no matter how — necessary," he adds, speaking to himself and, increasingly, to us.

The diary is written, not dictated, but it sounds as if it is spoken, or as if Gray is speaking to himself, an interior monologue.

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His eyes teared up as he silently spoke to himself.

When it was over, Weir spoke to himself in Russian, his adopted language.

He said he learned from it and spoke to himself during his victory over Raonic: "You need to win".

In the huddle, Eagles running back Duce Staley spoke to himself.

When first married her husband muttered to himself & this worried her more than if he had spoken to himself in a loud voice.

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