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How to use the word Accustomed in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

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That’s an animal who’s just become accustomed to people providing it with food.

Anna Meyer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re accustomed to droughts here. In a normal drought year, we can still supply 80 % of the product to our customers.

Steven Sutter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

All of this was preventable, you have officers who are young on the job, unsupervised out there doing what Memphis Police Department do on a regular basis. This was not anything that they are n’t accustomed to doing.

Cheryl Dorsey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's extremely difficult because you are away from your loved ones, you are away from the amenities that you have grown accustomed to, your lifestyle, and it's very difficult in that sense.

Leonard Jr.

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

My guess is that inflation will be lower next year than it was this year and quite likely will be lower in 2024 than in 2023. But I think is not going to be easy to bring inflation back to the kind of levels we have been accustomed to in recent decades, we have let the genie out of the bottle.

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That's missing the whole idea here, the whole idea is to get people accustomed to space, like going to the Riviera. It's not a vanity. It's a business.

William Shatner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A lot of older( long Covid) patients we deal with aren't accustomed to asking for help, and they think, perhaps, it's a little shameful to be needy.

James Jackson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression (it isn’t).

Franklin Leonard

added by kwesi.hughes
1 year ago

For me, personally, it’s a big adjustment. You don’t know who’s playing and who’s out. Who’s starting and who’s not. Something I’m not accustomed to. But like I said, I make no excuses. I own whatever it is, play whoever is playing and try to make the best out of it.

Russell Westbrook

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Consumers have become accustomed to getting products delivered to their homes.

Joe Pawlak

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Asian American community has grown accustomed to this hatred.

Assamad Nash

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The greatest factor I see affecting the 2022 housing market is the low inventory, while inventory remains low, buyers will become more accustomed to the lack of choices and will continue to aggressively compete to purchase homes.

Paulo Prietto

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s frustrating, from a personal standpoint, this is something that I want people to get accustomed to. I think this is the way I can play night in and night out. As a team, this one hurts.

Myles Turner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Under Andrew Cuomo,( public authorities and state agencies) have just been crushed over the last decade, so that they become accustomed to just doing whatever they're told by the governor's office, that firewall is gone.

John Kaehny

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My husband was a federal prosecutor for 30 years. So even when I was in Congress, we're well-accustomed to keeping our work very separate, he served as Barack Obama's Kathy Hochul attorney for eight years. So no one can touch the integrity with which we have brought to our positions in the past and currently.

Kathy Hochul

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Where we have Congress appropriating all this money due directly to the events on January 6, I have found the damage amount of less than $ 1.5 million, when all of us American taxpayers are about to foot the bill for close to half a billion dollars, a little bit surprising, i'm accustomed to the government being fairly aggressive.

Chief Judge Beryl Howell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People are slowly starting to enjoy sitting down at restaurants again, but don’t discount the value of convenience, during the pandemic, folks got a taste for what it’s like to have food from their favorite restaurants delivered right to their door. And now that they’ve gotten used to this service, there’s no going back. Restaurants need to continue to give customers all the options they’ve become accustomed to over the last year and a half. If not, they might grab a bite somewhere else.

David VanAmburg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

His life had changed so drastically, he was not accustomed to not being in the best of health. That bothered him. And then not being able to spend time out in public - that took a big chunk out of his world. He was at peace on stage performing. And in reflecting on his life, he realized, ‘This is what the rest of my life is going to be.’ He was in a melancholy place really.

Tony Oppedisano

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I give people a year before they see dealership lots look like what they're accustomed to.

An F-250

Found on CNN
2 years ago

At that point in time, I was not really accustomed to saying no.

Tracy Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You're really just attending to the sensation of walking, once you become accustomed to it, you could use this when you're walking anywhere.

Patricia Rockman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’ve gotten so accustomed to excusing myself from working out because of my work schedule or travel schedule… but during the past few months, I just chose to be late on a deadline or put off work until the next day so that exercise could happen, it was a simple shift in mindset, but it was important!

Ladd Drummond

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Look, I think that what you're seeing is a process that is unfolding, this is a legislative -- it's been a while, so we're still getting, people are getting accustomed to what the legislative process actually looks and feels like, but we're continuing to progress. We want to move infrastructure in a bipartisan way, and we're going to continue to have conversations with a bipartisan group, Democrats and The Republicans, in the Senate.

Brian Deese

Found on CNN
2 years ago

At the same time, a little part of me wants to tuck my necklace into my shirt in case the wrong person sees it. It's a very hard time to be a Jew in the United States right now and to see so many ignore the hatred we are seeing is incredibly painful – though nothing we're not accustomed to.

New York

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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