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.
- '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
- 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
- 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
- But decades of research have gone by and scientists remain incapable of creating a sustainable fusion reaction that could be used to create reliable power.
- I used to break-dance really badly. Times, Sunday Times
- During the hustle of everyone getting underway someone tripped the anchor that we used to stabilize our dinghy.
- The lure of profit from gold and diamonds, as well as from minerals such as coltan, which is used to make mobile phones, have turned eastern Congo into a battlefield. The Guardian World News
- The governor refused to accept Cox's resignation .
