ADJECTIVE
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in the habit of or adapted to
accustomed to doing her own work
I've grown accustomed to her face
we are used to better service in this restaurant -
in the habit of doing something
...was wont to complain that this is a cold world
How To Use used to In A Sentence
- I used to think the worst feeling was losing someone you love. But, I was wrong. The worst feeling is the moment you have lost yourself.
- The building used to look a bit fancier, and much more decorative, but it was never rebuilt.
- A specially designed speculum is used to help direct the injection into the G-spot, with effects lasting around four months. G Marks The Spot
- 'When I was a little girl I used to slip away from my nurse, climb to the top of my uncle's keep and sit in the crenel spaces. The Falcons of Montabard
- Nilufer Bharucha, faculty in the department of English and project coordinator, explained that the term diaspora means to be scattered or dispersed across national boundaries, and has been self-consciously used today by postcolonial theorists to describe those who got displaced from their home owing to colonial politics and post-colonial economic realities. Analysis
- I used to break-dance really badly. Times, Sunday Times
- Flakes with concavities exhibiting steep, unifacial retouch were used to whittle or plane wood, and flakes displaying spurs were used to incise bone or antler.
- And on the need for contempt powers, he recounted how officials at times refused to obey the orders.
- The new technique has been used to identify the sex of foetuses.
- Long drives will no longer be the chore they used to be in a small car. The Sun
