How to Use by ourselves in a Sentence

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• We’re not supposed to get through this kind of thing all by ourselves.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 May 2021
• This track points out how much we’re overworked — not simply by our jobs, but by ourselves.
  — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 20 Nov. 2020
• We were not meant to do this alone… We're not meant to figure this all out by ourselves.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2022
• For almost eight hours, your mom and I waited in a room by ourselves.
  — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 21 May 2021
• There may be an individual who makes a play, but not one of us can do it by ourselves.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 3 Jan. 2022
• My challenge for you today is to understand that police can't do it by ourselves.
  — Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2022
• Age is simply a number created by ourselves to measure the duration of life.
  — Alex Wagner, SPIN, 23 Feb. 2022
• No worries — 37 days was more than enough time to put together an entire headlining set all by ourselves.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2024
• Mostly because my wife and I can be only so entertaining on camera by ourselves.
  — Scott Kramer, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• This curriculum is carefully designed, by teachers, of course, but also by ourselves.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2023
• The real emotions that alpinists like me are experiencing on a mountain can only be captured on our own, by ourselves.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 23 Oct. 2025
• Several others were tried in our own homes for a lab test period of two weeks, whereas others that were purchased by ourselves were put to the test for several months.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
• For my partner and I, this meant eating fish and chips for lunch at a traditional pub, as well as tasting some local whiskies at a cozy hotel bar by ourselves.
  — Vicki Denig, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2024
• But they were influenced by ourselves, and by Sabbath and by Purple, and the pioneering bands who came before.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2025
• By the time Christmas comes around, most of us have had enough of planning and executing giant holiday family feasts all by ourselves.
  — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 5 Dec. 2022
• Overcoming this can mean silencing self-doubt and challenging the limiting beliefs that are imposed by society and, at times, by ourselves.
  — Angela Quach, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• And now, [ex-husband and show co-creator] Peter Marc Jacobson and I are starting it up again by ourselves.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2025
• Children like myself, eager to understand how kids experienced life in other situations than my own, have to seek out more information by ourselves.
  — Angela Lashbrook, refinery29.com, 19 July 2021
• If one of us went out in Baton Rouge by ourselves, there’s probably gonna be someone there asking for something – picture, autograph, whatever.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
• However, it can be easily recognized, called out by ourselves and others, and consciously regulated and corrected.
  — Womensmedia, Forbes, 1 July 2022