Sentence examples for telling himself from inspiring English sources

Milton tells the muse – or is he telling himself?

"Well, this isn't going anywhere," he recalled telling himself.

At least that's what he keeps telling himself.

"I am pretty analytic," Romer recalled telling himself.

"This is my patient," he recalled telling himself.

"I am God," he was once heard telling himself.

Be patient, he said he kept telling himself.

He kept telling himself, "Keep your eyes on the prize".

Nor had he given up on the story he'd been telling himself.

"I can always go back to the roof," he recalled telling himself.

He recalls telling himself, "I'm going to write a fantasy and it's going to be huge.