WONT in a Sentence

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For WONT, below is one of 53 sentences:
Dear sor, as you haf bin treading mee for a fue Weaks dis Somer and seen wat is rong wit mee so in Regarding to dat i wont to tank you.

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 Meanings and Examples of WONT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
wont
 n.  an established custom
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  The older, quieter cities were wont to look upon the bustling new town with the sensations of a hen which has hatched a duckling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  For a moment the expression Mammy was wont to describe to herself as "bullheaded" flitted over her young mistress' face and then it passed into a smile, so difficult for Mammy to resist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  Once the old doctor had been wont to thank God reverently for each child he brought into the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  Dear sor, as you haf bin treading mee for a fue Weaks dis Somer and seen wat is rong wit mee so in Regarding to dat i wont to tank you.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  It was not a great while after the affair of the pipe, that one morning shortly after breakfast, Ahab, as was his wont, ascended the cabin-gangway to the deck.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
6  For of these moonlight nights, it was his wont to mount to the main-mast head, and stand a look-out there, with the same precision as if it had been day.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
7  He went into one of the saloons he had been wont to frequent and bought a drink, and then stood by the fire shivering and waiting to be ordered out.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
8  There she lay, robed in one of the simple white dresses she had been wont to wear when living; the rose-colored light through the curtains cast over the icy coldness of death a warm glow.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  This hall, in which he was now left alone, was a pet fancy of his friend the doctor's; and Utterson himself was wont to speak of it as the pleasantest room in London.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
10  To my thinking now," said the Jester, who was frequently wont to act as peace-maker in the family, "our master did not propose to hurt Fangs, but only to affright him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  Was wont to steal the hermit's hymn.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
12  I am not wont to be baffled in my enterprises, nor needs a Norman noble scrupulously to vindicate his conduct to the Saxon maiden whom he distinguishes by the offer of his hand.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  Are wont to outwear the night with.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
15  She was willing to allow he might have more good qualities than she had been wont to suppose.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
Example Sentence:
1  Old use and wont legs about the fire.
2  She arrived an hour late, as is her wont.
3  He was wont to rise early.
4  Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.