Sentence examples for sum yourself from inspiring English sources

Why do you love Twitter – and can you sum yourself up in 140 characters?

"You either managed your lump sum yourself or locked it up in an annuity, an insurance product that makes payments to you for life," said Craig Copeland, a senior associate with the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a nonprofit organization in Washington.

"It's unnerving to sum yourself up and convey your personality," said Gretchen Rubin, a former lawyer in New York and author of "The Happiness Project," who opted for tongue-in-cheek: Red-haired, left-handed, legally blind, massive consumer of Diet Coke.

That point aside -- I mean, clearly people do find text profiles useful (women for men usually) -- I personally could never surmount the embarrassment and clear impossibility of summing myself up in the way you're supposed to sum yourself up for a dating site.

Of course, if you are thinking of doing an MBA, you should be clever enough to do the sums yourself.

This is known affectionately as the elevator pitch; summing yourself up in five floors, which Kay once made me do repeatedly in an actual elevator.

In sum, ask yourself: Do I really want to fly?

In sum, prepare YOURSELF first.

Before doing anything else, stop and sum up yourself as an artist.

You could have made a tidy sum, I say, backing yourself to win at 6-1. "Oh no, I wasn't going to bet on me.

I long for a sociological survey of those who take up the current Waitrose offer of a Valentine Day's dinner to take home, for a modest sum, to cook for yourself and your loved one.