ACCUSTOMED in a Sentence

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1. This is his accustomed hour to go to bed.
2. You must accustom yourself to getting up early.
3. He had to accustom himself to the cold weather.
4. They had to accustom themselves to the hot weather.
5. He quickly accustomed himself to this new way of life.

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 Meanings and Examples of ACCUSTOMED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
accustomed
 a.  habitual to; used to; frequently practiced, used, or experienced; customary
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In another moment she would step forth into the night, and his eyes, accustomed to the obscurity, would discern her as clearly as though she stood in daylight.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Zeena came into the room with her dragging down-at-the-heel step, and quietly took her accustomed seat between them.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  These people, drawn from many different places and with many different backgrounds, gave the whole life of the County an informality that was new to Ellen, an informality to which she never quite accustomed herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  The heavy mahogany table and sideboards, the massive silver, the bright rag rugs on the shining floor were all in their accustomed places, just as if nothing had happened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Scarlett, accustomed to wide vistas of rolling red hills, felt that she was in prison.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  There had been fighting in Tennessee for three years and people were accustomed to the thought of that state as a far-away battle field, almost as far away as Virginia or the Mississippi River.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  The Confederate soldier was so accustomed to his verminous state he did not give it a thought and scratched unconcernedly even in the presence of ladies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  He was just plain Cracker, a small farmer, half-educated, prone to grammatical errors and ignorant of some of the finer manners the O'Haras were accustomed to in gentlemen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  But they were, as a class, childlike in mentality, easily led and from long habit accustomed to taking orders.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
10  Soon Atlanta became accustomed to seeing Scarlett and her bodyguard and, from being accustomed, the ladies grew to envy her her freedom of movement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
11  In such emergencies, Judy would usually have turned to Lily to fuse the discordant elements; and Miss Bart, assuming that such a service was expected of her, threw herself into it with her accustomed zeal.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
12  Such flashes of joy as Lily moved in would have blinded Miss Farish, who was accustomed, in the way of happiness, to such scant light as shone through the cracks of other people's lives.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
13  Carol perceived that Mrs. Dyer was accustomed to this indignity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  Maybe it ain't any Hotel Radisson parlor, but still, it's so much better than anything these hired girls are accustomed to at home that they think it's fine.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  But Lena asked Jake and me to get off our horses and stay awhile, and behaved exactly as if she were in a house and were accustomed to having visitors.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
Example Sentence:
1  Researchers have found that kangaroos often become accustomed to these artificial sounds and took little notice of them.
2  A young lady accustomed to tuition is desirous of meeting with a situation in a private family where the children are under fourteen.
3  Someone accustomed to exercising authority may become autocratic if his or her power is unchecked.
4  The blacksmith was accustomed to the clangor of hammers on steel.
5  We are accustomed to taking cues from the outside world, filtering them, and writing our own novel inside our head.
6  This is his accustomed hour to go to bed.
7  The team has accustomed itself to the pace of first division rugby.
8  He quickly accustomed himself to this new way of life.
9  Millions of users of Amazon's Echo speakers have grown accustomed to the soothing strains of Alexa, the human-sounding virtual assistant.
10  You must accustom yourself to getting up early.
11  He had to accustom himself to the cold weather.
12  He soon gets accustom to dormitory life and make two or three friend.
13  They had to accustom themselves to the hot weather.
14  It'll take time for me to accustom myself to the changes.