How To Use Get used to In A Sentence

I would prepare by elevating a bowling machine to try and get used to a trajectory that is steeper and, as the former Australia and Lancashire coach Bob Simpson used to say, loopier. The Ashes 2010: England's beanpole bowlers deliver big advantage
A man could get used to that sort of lifestyle.
South African cricketers had better get used to being dope tested once the United Cricket Board of South Africa introduces its anti-doping policy at its annual meeting in August.
As each of us develops our skills and craftsmanship, we get used to the properties of our painting surfaces.
Until then though, 3D TV's may very well be used to draw in susceptible consumers and in some form (as long as we get used to it) will be viewable in video games, cell phones, and on our everyday television. Thoughts: 3d TV without the Glasses

Although Deanna Russo in undies I could get used to. Knight Rider: Series Premier
Even though we know that eventually we'll be moving on, inevitably we settle into the life of a community, we make friends, we get used to people and they get used to us - our eccentricities, our idiosyncrasies.
The lean Arctic light, long and horizontal and visually stunning, gives everything a superreal quality of detail that I suppose you might get used to over time, but for now it is arresting. Beth Kapusta: ...somewhere just south of the 79th parallel
City inhabitants can seldom get used to country life.
Time won't ease your pain but let you get used to it.
Note that the indicator and wiper stalks have a new action that takes time to get used to.
All the guests were models of decorum, grace and manners and I didn't know if I would get used to such good behaviour.
It buys you a moment to get used to being on stage, it gives you a chance to speak out loud and to steady your voice and it establishes a relationship with the auditors.
If college degrees remain an entree to wealth and status in the 21st century, males may have to get used to the same second-class status that American women so long endured, as highly educated females become the majority among the nation's intellectual, economic, and even power elite.
At a time when America's elites said that the United States was in an irreversible decline, and the rest of us should just get used to it, Ronald Reagan stood athwart what was then considered the tide of history and said: ‘No.’
And people had better not get used to this particular treat. Times, Sunday Times
The Smart is very easy to drive and the semi-automatic sequential gearbox is fine - once you get used to it.
So, if intelligent design is the popular choice, perhaps we should just get used to it.
You get used to being rejected from the minute you walk into a room. Times, Sunday Times
If college degrees remain an entree to wealth and status in the 21st century, males may have to get used to the same second-class status that American women so long endured, as highly educated females become the majority among the nation's intellectual, economic, and even power elite.
Despite having to get used to American spellings she quickly took to the game, and continued to play on board an ocean liner as she crossed the Pacific to visit more cousins in Australia.
As adults our abdomens get tightened up from stress, and we get used to taking very short, shallow breaths.
We haven't got no shopping centre here, no petrol bowsers, so people have to get used to travelling to Stratford.
According to ESPN's Tim Griffin, West Virginia players are using some kind of fancy, enclosed closet that includes the word hypoxic to get used to the high altitude in Boulder. Corn Nation
We have to get used to the financial reality rather than an imagined one. Times, Sunday Times
You get used to being rejected from the minute you walk into a room. Times, Sunday Times
I term this propensity to get used to things given the right conditions, psychological dialecticism - which I believe unites the Marxians and Hegelians. Asian
I never get used to those foods although I can prepare soba for myself.
One play that will give him trouble early is the bunt, as he must get used to playing more shallow and making a barehanded play.
But Pyongyang's fulfilment of its promise to carry out the test suggests that the world may have to get used to a new and unpredictable nuclear power. Times, Sunday Times
Once children get used to the cyber culture, they graduate to porno sites.
Might as well just get used to more flash crashes. Times, Sunday Times
It made it easier for him to get used to the potty.
It does take a while to get used to, but remember, to teach your dog anything, you must be the leader and the boss.
Nato's smaller fish may find this disconcerting and expensive but they need to get used to it. Times, Sunday Times
As soon as motorists get used to counting two cameras before putting their foot down, it will be necessary to install three in a row, then four and so on until the whole county is covered by serried ranks of cameras.
This will seem very strange and freakish at first but after a few times you will get used to it and gradually come to enjoy it.
Kids need to get used to the fact that there are rules to be obeyed for the rest of their lives.
This system is a first clear step that has to grow," Van Kooten says, but more research is needed and people need to get used to the idea of sunless, landless agriculture. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
It thus becomes important for us to prepare fast and bouncy wickets at home, so that our batsmen get used to these surfaces.
If college degrees remain an entree to wealth and status in the 21st century, males may have to get used to the same second-class status that American women so long endured, as highly educated females become the majority among the nation's intellectual, economic, and even power elite.
What will all these little princes and princesses be like in their teenage years, if they get used to absolute, undivided attention from everyone when they're three and a half?
This is a GOOD thing, when all is said and done - we all better get used to re-educating ourselves, and continually re-skilling if we expect to maintain our current and future standard of living. Offshorable Jobs, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. Robert A. Heinlein
Walnut veneer panelling in the bathroom can come as a shock, but you soon get used to it.
So you will have to get used to doing without all the administrative support systems you probably take for granted. Times, Sunday Times
We get used to that, we endure, we harden, we batten down the hatches to protect our habits. LOST CHILDREN
The thing is that when you get used to thinking a certain way the neural pathways in your brain change, in a physical sense. Times, Sunday Times
It's surprising how quickly you get used to things.
Everyone had to get used to it very quickly and it took some people aback. The Sun
At board meetings you have to get used to the formality of the language.
Sure he'd never get used to this obsession with tea at all hours, Flynn found himself in the cosiest little room ever. TICKLED PINK
I was scared at the start but after a while you get used to the pain - you hurt your shins all the time.
Second annoyance is changing stocks: you'll go there for ages, get used to a certain product and then you'll find it's been discontinued.
But we had to get our heads into football and get used to the atmosphere. The Sun
It took her husband time to get used to the idea of uprooting, and she admits her grown children had concerns. KansasCity.com: Front Page
I'm lucky because the more you referee games and the more players get used to your face and your style of refereeing the better it is.
Get used to traditional personage and contemporary personage's avirulent and practical to furniture, environmental protection, harmless, natural requirement.
The disjunction between the Flighthawk and the Mega-fortress was one of the hardest things for the pi-lot to get used to. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
It took time for hockey fans to get used to the lateral distance from the rink, but the energy of the crowd helped make it easy to follow the game, even in the nosebleed seats.
Believe it or not she began to get used to the lonesomeness.
If college degrees remain an entree to wealth and status in the 21st century, males may have to get used to the same second-class status that American women so long endured, as highly educated females become the majority among the nation's intellectual, economic, and even power elite.
`So would I. We'll let her get used to lockup tonight, then see if she wants to deal. SILENT JOE
He's a perimeter player, a slasher, and that takes time to get used to in the league.
Moral disfavour is something you're going to have to get used to, we fear, especially if you're going to carry on preaching the condemnation of homosexuality in a culture that now very often, and more so by the day, deems that message as obsolete and objectionable as the condemnation of "miscegenation. Archive 2010-03-01
Because of my Tokyo-bred punctuality, I could not get used to such a casual lifestyle.
The food was plain and the menus monotonous, and it took time to get used to the ever-present tea, heavily sweetened with molasses and poured from large steel drums.
Its primary manifestation is that we no longer refer to our lack of rain as “an extended drought”, but rather “get used to it.” Matthew Yglesias » Baby, It’s Cold Outside
It was over, she had to get used to it, and not verge on catatonic when anyone came within five feet of her. DOLL'S EYES
And he will train in a freezer at a supermarket depot to get used to sub-zero temperatures he will have to endure.
I can understand that spectators might feel short-changed, but in reality people have to get used to the idea. Times, Sunday Times
Sarah Povey, whose husband Sion, a Lance Corporal, is an armourer, said: ‘The Queen asked how I coped with separation and I told her you get used to it but that didn't make it any easier.’
She seemed to say it partly for the sake of others, so they could get used to the idea and steel themselves when the time came. Times, Sunday Times
When you're different,when you're special,sometimes you have to get used to being alone.
Life is not fair, get used to it.
Judging by his phony picture he's one of those fussy, antiseptic, precocious little boys that mothers adore and fathers get used to.
It all seems so simple from this perspective. I could get used to this evil genius lark.
While verb conjugation is different in Spanish, it's really (deep breath) not that scary once you get used to it. Your suggestions
We have become used to seeing lines of pylons and we will get used to turbines. Times, Sunday Times
He hoed furrows three feet apart, arranged a flexible plastic pipe to the highest point in the field, and irrigated the dry ground to the north so it could get used to moisture it had never experienced except as rain. Alba
Life is not fair, get used to it.
De plus, I am learning that dotting the i's and crossing the t's of rigidity (there's that word again) only ever ends in flurry: Dame Chaos will invite herself to lafête so one might as well join in and get used to whim! Recette / Recipe
Hey, if I could get used to working as a salesgirl in a dress shop, I can get used to anything.
So the idea of doing so with no preparation—no buildup time to get used to the idea of winging your body across the continent—was even more unfathomable. Miss Misery
She could never get used to the distinct smell of the hospital and wondered if the nurses felt the same way.
Get used to rediscovering the big clay clodhoppers on your Savior. Matthew Yglesias » Bygones
He may be forced to get used to the term sooner rather than later. PopMatters
She also had to get used to a camera crew following her round during her placement. Times, Sunday Times
Get used to pushing your plate aside when you've had enough.
Don't worry, you'll soon get used to your new school.
There are more similarities than differences but until you get used to it, the set-up of the courses can be quite unnerving. For Love or Money
We had better get used to it. Times, Sunday Times
She hadn't done a backbend for a couple weeks and her muscles took a few times to get used to the movement again.
At first it can be a slightly unnerving experience but drivers find they get used to it quickly. Times, Sunday Times
The one last night was pretty mild, and mountains pulsate less than alluvial land (which is relatively gelatin to a tremor of the earth), but no matter how many times you're shaken, you never get used to quakes.
Time won't ease your pain but let you get used to it.
At first it can be a slightly unnerving experience but drivers find they get used to it quickly. Times, Sunday Times
He was able to get used to the pressure as a closer in college and the minors instead of training for the job as a starter.
And he will train in a freezer at a supermarket depot to get used to sub-zero temperatures he will have to endure.
Whereas we are now getting used, and will increasingly get used to transplants of other vital organs below the neck.
Sales professionals have to get used to the idea of fluctuating income as many jobs offer a lower base salary and add commission based on a percent of what you sell. A Career in Sales
You get used to seeing so many things, you become immune to what would normally be considered perversions.
Either that or I have to start drinking more and get used to feeling like a damn zombie the next day.
It's just a bit difficult to get used to the startling contrast, that's all ... Hey!
We get used to that, we endure, we harden, we batten down the hatches to protect our habits. LOST CHILDREN
Ware will win decisively so you'll just have to get used to it. House of Delegates Preview- Part 1
The ace poacher, who has scored two goals in two games in City's promising start to the new campaign, reckons it is a pressure the team has to get used to.
A servant brought Clark meals, and he started to get used to ringing for things, being able to give his whole attention to what was in front of him.
I nodded and outstretched my hand, petting the muzzle of the horse, letting it get used to me before I swung myself up on its bare back.
As soon as motorists get used to counting two cameras before putting their foot down, it will be necessary to install three in a row, then four and so on until the whole county is covered by serried ranks of cameras.
The first year was difficult as it takes time to get used to people. The Sun
I spend time with enough decadents to get used to their somewhat skewed sense of fashion, but this young man looks out of place within himself.
He has his own peculiar style which you'll soon get used to.
If college degrees remain an entree to wealth and status in the 21st century, males may have to get used to the same second-class status that American women so long endured, as highly educated females become the majority among the nation's intellectual, economic, and even power elite.
Perched at 5,380 ft on the side of a Swiss Alp, Whitepod is quite unlike anything you'll ever have seen in skiing, and the sooner you get used to the idea, the better.
Watching the erstwhile nerd get used to his muscular new body and powers - accidentally firing off webs and finding things sticking to his arachnoid hands - is one of the most engaging parts of the film.
Of all the guys who have switched uniforms this season, maybe the hardest to get used to will be Lynch, who personified the Bucs' defense with his sledgehammer style.
The clock might be a little harder to read (at lest until you get used to it), but if you something colorful in your decor then this clock is a must. Clock Side Table
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. Sarah Dessen
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. Charles M. Schulz
Sarah Povey, whose husband Sion, a Lance Corporal, is an armourer, said: ‘The Queen asked how I coped with separation and I told her you get used to it but that didn't make it any easier.’
`So would I. We'll let her get used to lockup tonight, then see if she wants to deal. SILENT JOE
Nor did it help that it was very slippery and greasy, but we will have to get used to that.
When you're different,when you're special[sentence dictionary],sometimes you have to get used to being alone.
But with their meteoric rise to fame, we'd better get used to being this week's Williamsburg, despite the rumour that they've already moved to New York.
Job-sharing is still a novel concept and it will take a while for employers to get used to it.
If college degrees remain an entree to wealth and status in the 21st century, males may have to get used to the same second-class status that American women so long endured, as highly educated females become the majority among the nation's intellectual, economic, and even power elite.
After the original version of the album had already been released in October 1979, it was remixed and reissued with a new sleeve in mid 1980 - meaning many fans shelling out twice for the same product (something we would all have to get used to in the years to come as countless bands and labels indulged in remixes, re-issues and multiple formats) THE VINYL VILLAIN
Because of my Tokyo-bred punctuality, I could not get used to such a casual lifestyle.
Boy: Well, I want dollar a day for ice - cream so I'll get used to the clod.
Ã The story then jumps ahead 10 years to slow down and let us get used to some of these characters before they get pickaxed, as well. Review: ‘My Bloody Valentine 3-D’ | We Are Movie Geeks
When you're different,when you're special,sometimes you have to get used to being alone.
Get used to the fact that the term bankruptcy is meaningless in the context of what is going on, and for such enormous balance sheets like AIG's. Jobs and the Economy
Mouthing a pony is the initial stage of breaking a pony and getting him to get used to the fact that he is going to be ridden.
Once you are successfully coasting in the narrow stance with an upright torso, lift the left toe and get used to coasting that way.
A merger or takeover means that two 50,000 compensation ceilings become one, so you may have to get used to moving your savings around. Times, Sunday Times
I am now well into my third month of unpaid holiday and beginning to entertain the merest suggestion of an idea of a suspicion that I could get used to this.
If you leave the voting to those keeners who were in line on Tuesday morning, then you might as well get used to not having a vote at all.
I hoped she could get used to the name switch for we intended to call her Michelle. Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
She said that foreigners cannot get used to the dirtiness and lack of organisation on streets but ‘the rest is very enjoyable’.
And I had to walk down steps in Wheeling too, think I crossed halls and fields as well, guess these are the worst people I know, guess that I should get used to them. Experimental Fiction
This is franchise football - get used to it. Times, Sunday Times
And you'd better get used to the wonderful subtlety of flavour in quinoa. Times, Sunday Times
These dogwatches are really good; I could get used to two hours of work and with that half your day's graft done.
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. Sarah Dessen
I'll probably have to get used to it again, living out in the boonies as we do now.
He was waving his arms around, trying to get used to the fact that water was streaming down his face.
And people had better not get used to this particular treat. Times, Sunday Times
It was a fun time, especially since I am 'defrosting' and have started to get used to the heat a little more. Jounen Kweyol
But when it comes to the best girl in all the universe caring for an ordinary gink like me - well, you'll have to let me get used to it.
We may have to get used to bigger pips in the larger fruited blackberries, loganberries and raspberries too. The Sun
You have to get used to those acronyms. Times, Sunday Times
Though it takes some patience to get used to the canned instrumentals, the sensitive production threaded with handclaps and sugary, multi-tracked harmonies quickly chase away any lingering skepticism.
It gets mispronounced or misspelled, but you get used to that after a year or two in school.
It can be hard to get used to not holding something and having something in your mouth. If you have this problem, stock up on carrot sticks, sugar-free gum, mints, toothpicks, or even lollipops.
You'll soon get used to the climate here.
(even as we are still trying to get used to hearing the term trillions), according to the Bank of National Settlements. Signs of the Times
Despite having to get used to American spellings she quickly took to the game, and continued to play on board an ocean liner as she crossed the Pacific to visit more cousins in Australia.
While some say it is "unpronounceable", it would be a good idea to get used to the name because for sure it is going to be around the international travel, but the overall economic impact is only beginning to be understood. WN.com - Articles related to NASA's Earth Exchange Allows Scientists to Collaborate on Data Analysis
There are more similarities than differences but until you get used to it, the set-up of the courses can be quite unnerving. For Love or Money
Wonderful old songs, and slowly my fingers get used to playing blues scales, blue notes and the squashed sliding thirds and fifths of this old music fusing Irish, Scottish, French, African and English melodies.
It took a while to get used to the social nuances of the office.
If college degrees remain an entree to wealth and status in the 21st century, males may have to get used to the same second-class status that American women so long endured, as highly educated females become the majority among the nation's intellectual, economic, and even power elite.
You can spend some time at the crease, get used to the bowler's action, the ground, the wicket.
It's funny how you can get used to almost anything, like a loud noise down the street, but we are selling our souls if we "acclimate" ourselves to these butcher factories for our children. HORROR is the only word to describe these last eight years and we must never minimize or repress this truth.
You will get used to sharing a lavatory cubicle with at least one other person, sometimes two or three on an outing. Times, Sunday Times
Nato's smaller fish may find this disconcerting and expensive but they need to get used to it. Times, Sunday Times
On holiday in Tenerife, he opted to run in the hot sun in a bid to get used to the temperatures he will face in Africa.
You'll have to get used to his direct manner.
It's a new experience, living with someone who's a better cook than me, but one I could get used to.
I'll get used to the process of course, and I'll make use of it to keep a better grip on the material, but I'm sure there will be times when I'll hanker after simpler times when I had more webspace than I could ever fill.
As a light sleeper, I can only struggle now to find better ear-plugs, or hope to sleep with my window forever open and get used to the outside noises as well.
Until we use what rights we do have to instigate change, get used to being laughed off.
They forget that when a player moves abroad he has to get used to the cultural, lifestyle, and behavioural differences a new club will invariably throw up.
Your in the minority neo-con republiklans, get used to it! CNN Poll: Americans don't want to intervene in Iran election crisis
It's been six years now, you get used to living a double life.
Customers will get used to making free voice calls over the internet.
You have to get used to those acronyms. Times, Sunday Times
But you get used to it quickly as part of the flavor of a future feudalized America where corporate clans -- the Christler-Cokes, Disney-Dows, Jockey-Visas, and the like own it all, leave literacy to the lower classes, and live lives of golden ease. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
I could get used to windows with curtains, or looking through a curtained window to see a pink plastic bucket in a green turtle sandbox. Michael koehler | tangletown & beyond « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
The light inside the building blasted into her eyes, making her have to blink many times to get used to it.
But it may take some time yet for passengers to get used to navigating the new terminal, and for now airport staff are on hand to direct passengers around the terminal.
If they are exposed to the vibrations every 30 seconds, however, they eventually get used to them and stop responding (it generally takes 10 to 12 stimulations), through a process called habituation - much as people living close to a railway track eventually stop noticing the sound of passing trains. New Scientist - Online News
You will soon get used to the work.
If college degrees remain an entree to wealth and status in the 21st century, males may have to get used to the same second-class status that American women so long endured, as highly educated females become the majority among the nation's intellectual, economic, and even power elite.
Kind of like trying to ride an unbroken horse, it is going to take a while for both of you to get used to one another.
On a family visit to Windsor Safari Park just to get used to his new car, a jumpy old banger with steering wheel stick-shift gears, Ron was flagged down by a policeman.
Get used to traditional personage and contemporary personage's avirulent and practical to furniture, environmental protection, harmless, natural requirement.
His new wife had to get used to this. Christianity Today
He murmured then, in a soft purr, ‘I could get used to this.’
Shane blinked a few times to get used to the bright rays of sunshine beaming in through the window.
If college degrees remain an entree to wealth and status in the 21st century, males may have to get used to the same second-class status that American women so long endured, as highly educated females become the majority among the nation's intellectual, economic, and even power elite.
He read it, keeping his face expressionless, which is something you get used to when you work with John. Remember Me, Irene
While some say it is "unpronounceable", it would be a good idea to get used to the name because for sure it is going to be around the international media for a long time to come. Pravda.Ru
But then she might have to get used to that moniker. The Sun
If college degrees remain an entree to wealth and status in the 21st century, males may have to get used to the same second-class status that American women so long endured, as highly educated females become the majority among the nation's intellectual, economic, and even power elite.
When you're different,when you're special,sometimes you have to get used to being alone.
There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made out of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.
It seemed to be a good climb to get used to the type of rock and crack climbing.
We'll never get used to the idea of buffed-to-shine fingernails. Esquire.com Article Feed

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