How To Use Unused to In A Sentence
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Football is not unused to unscrupulous behaviour, including Far East gambling scams, players prepared to fix matches, agents ready to give and managers to take six-figure bungs.
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At that time I was a gawky 18-year-old, from a small town - unused to and unaware of the big sophisticated city.
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This is largely due to the tump-line, which is laid over the head, while persons unused to it must have shoulder-straps in addition, which are not as good, because the "breastbone," so called, is not strong enough.
Crooked Trails
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From her experience in the east she regarded the Russians as barbarians, unused to the basic norms of civilised life.
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A family, unused to the centre of the stage and broken in grief, draw comfort from the predictability of the rituals.
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It is unused to collecting fees for an individual sale that contain more than four digits.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unused to such harsh treatment, the horse reared back on its hind legs, unseating Jack Foster who landed with a thud on his backside.
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She is German, unused to the Hollywood tradition of Barbie-esque perfection, and acts natural.
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Rue looked at him with a little dismay; she was inexpressibly grateful for him, but she was unused to speaking in fervencies.
The Glass Slipper
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she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship
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It wasn't the fact that she was unused to the size of the car, or that little Billy was throwing a fit on the back seat that meant she ended up forming a diagonal between the white lines, oh no.
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The tendency for anyone unused to such enormous forces is literally to be thrown over the handlebars.
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Meredith was unused to drink and scrumpy is best left to those with strong heads.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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It was a challenge not only to get it into the form (meter and rhyme), but I was unused to writing about such concrete subject matter.
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Mother was entirely unused to such hard work.
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Although he lacked a good radio voice, he excelled at writing short but incisive essays that captured a radio audience unused to such quality in a news broadcast.
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Mr Feeney said most people were unused to walking over rough terrain and their ankles are not strong enough.
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Gently brush the toes of one foot with an unused toothbrush, soaked in a shampoo solution.
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Sunburn is more likely to occur in people unused to bright sunlight, and in fair-skinned and red-headed people.
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feet unused to shoes
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Early settlers, unused to such large marine creatures, cut them into dice called mootjies and simmered them with onions.
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They are urging people with unused tools and woodwork equipment sitting idle in garages and around the house to donate them.
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It came as no surprise that she was unused to being around so many strangers at once.
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Cutting blades need particular attention, but take care and consult an expert if you're unused to handling sharp implements.
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The words were pressed from vocal cords unused to them, shaped by lips that were more inclined to some other form of speech.
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This is an easy routine, designed for anyone who is unused to exercise.
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Unfortunately, the Dingle man managed to get his ball just nine metres from the hole but it was a very credible attempt for someone unused to the tee.
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This is an easy routine, designed for anyone who is unused to exercise.
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Oversized dungarees and long-sleeved shirts were the most practical items to put on in the morning, especially since the majority of girls, unused to farm tools, preferred to do their jobs by hand.
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She looked rather lost unused to choosing between an electric hover or a self-propelling rotary.
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This is an easy routine, designed for anyone who is unused to exercise.
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downeasters," they were perfectly astounded by this second specimen of life in the wilderness; the men, being especially unused to bushfighting and the use of the rifle, were at a loss how to proceed.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
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He had grown unused to this sort of attention.
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The soft music of the distant string band and -- oh, it was all dashed with a touch of Babylonic splendour with due regard for the decorum required by modern civilisation, and Nancy was sufficiently young and unused to delight in every moment of it.
The Man in the Twilight
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As to Wyeth, and his little band of "downeasters," they were perfectly astounded by this second specimen of life in the wilderness; the men, being especially unused to bushfighting and the use of the rifle, were at a loss how to proceed.
The adventures of Captain Bonneville
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It wasn't until early last fall that I actually pulled it out of the plastic tub that houses my hammer, nails, and other unused tools.
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Her expertise will come in handy for a company not unused to the odd legal tussle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her expertise will come in handy for a company not unused to the odd legal tussle.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Kirsteen, quite unused to beautiful manufactured things, admired them all, and found a pleasure in heaping together and contrasting with each other the soft silken stuffs, many of them with a sheen of two blended colours called "shot" in those days.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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The salt flats are not unused to record breaking attempts.
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It was with a twitch of this kind, and a certain indescribable twinkle of his somewhat melancholy eye, as he seemed intuitively to form a hasty conception of the oddity of his appearance to a stranger unused to the bush, that he welcomed me to his clearing.
Roughing It in the Bush
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A recent law that bars police from rousting homeless people from the city has expanded the vagrant population in a city unused to street people.
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Women born in the Sixties onwards are so unused to chivalry that we wouldn't know what to do with it if it bit us on the nose, apologised and draped its coat over that puddle we were about to step into.
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And I was embarrassed by him, too young for his shy approaches, too unused to such respectful gallantry.
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He saw the head and face of a young fellow of twenty, but, being unused to such appraisement, he did not know how to value it.
Chapter 4
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He had grown unused to this sort of attention.
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The plot itself is pretty good - the vampires are still unused to their sudden ascendance and have ambiguous feelings about it, embodied in the two brothers, one a grunt in the human-hunting army who seems content with the way humans are treated, the other a haematologist who tolerates the situation as a temporary measure but has many regrets.
Archive 2010-02-01
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Unused to such harsh treatment, the horse reared back on its hind legs, unseating Jack Foster who landed with a thud on his backside.
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This guest posting stint is very strange: I am simply unused to the idea of reading so many positive comments about Matt Yglesias on this blog. shawn Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Greetings
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Thus, when an upright man of weak understanding, and unused to express his ideas, is conscious that he has stated either too much or too little — that he has misunderstood the judge, or that the judge has misunderstood him — and revokes, in the spirit of justice, what he has advanced through incaution, he is punished as
A Philosophical Dictionary
