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How to use the word Usual in a Sentence?

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Happiness, I decided years ago, is unattainable and I don’t wish to seek it through the usual methods. Peace is a reflection of our souls, leaving me a non-entity. I cry because people want to feel and I join them in their fears and private agonies and I wish for death and pray for life and hope to God that God even gives a shit and before I die and receive my judgment I just want to help 1 person FEEL, to know what it is to be alive and to ease their suffering as only a tormented soul can.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
10 months ago

Unfortunately, that doesn’t substantively change the timeline we described in our January report, if we play our cards right and shepherd more of the snowmelt to Great Salt Lake, this could buy us another two years. On the other hand, if we go back to business as usual, we could be back at an all-time low 18 months from now.

Benjamin Abbott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Despite the huge shifts in market momentum, home sellers can count on the usual seasonal trends tipping the scales a bit further in their favor while home shoppers should expect a fair amount of competition that should ease as we move later into the year.

Danielle Hale

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s not just having the usual stuff that people have been able to wager… it’s the conversation starter questions around those sports: what’s happening in those sports that keep them relevant, even when the first pitch of the season hasn’t started yet.

Pat Morrow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I realize his question was just a way to start conversation, i guess in a way it did break the ice because I did my usual rambling with far too much detail and color for any answer, displaying a kind of classic American friendliness which some French people find fun.

Bolivia Augustin and Michelle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s no more nor less than usual.

Jim Warren

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Soils are much drier than usual.

Simon Mittelberger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For Cameroon to come out in the open, it will send a very strong message to the youth structures in Cameroon, it’s no longer business as usual whereby you just pick players who will be judged according to the documents that they have brought in.

Gomezgani Zakazaka

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is really a huge opportunity, but that actually raises the stakes for getting the short-term policies, there’s a possibility that we have all of this water and very little of it gets to the lake. We could instead just hold it in reservoirs, divert it and use it for kind of business-as-usual in the coming year — and that would be a huge missed opportunity.

Benjamin Abbott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The new Republican majority needs to make a dramatic, concrete and credible statement that business as usual in Washington is over, is there a more powerful statement than to swear off the wasteful and corrupting practice of congressional earmarking?

Tom McClintock

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

At the same time, 29 percent spoke in favor of the usual format of the celebration, and 52 percent suggested this time to refrain from mass street concerts.

The Moscow mayor

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

More than 80 percent of the participants supported the holding of New Year's events and the festive decoration of the city, at the same time, 29 percent spoke in favor of the usual format of the celebration, and 52 percent suggested this time to refrain from mass street concerts.

Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Unlike many of President Trump's supporters, Black voters do not usually vote against their own economic interest, but in a climate where the professional peddlers of disinformation continue to successfully target Black voters, Democrats will need to drastically step up their engagement efforts far beyond their usual one-dimensional playbook. The Biden Administration appears to have a clear understanding of the challenge at hand with Black voters, given the timing of his full and unconditional pardon of all prior federal offenses for simple possession of marijuana — a move that will greatly benefit the Black and brown communities that have been disproportionately arrested for marijuana possession.

Jehmu Greene

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Pneumonia is very rarely actually diagnosed down to which specific microbe is causing it. Not all patients with pneumonia have the same clinical features, these can vary. If a pneumonia case looked a bit different to usual, and if there are fatalities, which seems to be the case here, then you might expect to find the cause. But unexplained pneumonia cases probably happen frequently and are not reported, meaning it is hard to know how common things like this really are.

Lance Turtle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Water companies will want to make money from selling water, so it's in their interest to keep selling, even when there are restrictions in place, we haven't got this quite right, but water companies don't have the incentive to do the right thing, environmentally speaking, and that goes for pollution and flooding, as well as droughts and leakage. It has been very much a case of' Let's just carry on, business as usual.'.

Hannah Cloke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My advice that Justice Department officials should wait until after the midterms was based upon a rather standard landscape. [ Justice Department ] set off a nuclear bomb on that landscape yesterday. This is no longer a business-as-usual campaign. Not even close.

Michael Caputo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We saw a 10 [ times ] surge for prescription-only Ella, and even though demand has leveled out right now, what we're starting to see is birth control requests are [ three to four ] times higher than usual.

Kelly Gardiner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For too long political games in Washington on both sides of the aisle have stopped progress towards protecting our communities and keeping families safe and secure, casting blame and trading political barbs and attacks became the path of least resistance, but the communities across our country who have experienced senseless violence deserve better than Washington politics as usual.

Kyrsten Sinema

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the morning again as usual, sbicap securities stock broker has again made its web trading pages again unresponsive and not allowing its clients i.e traders to buy and sale shares in the pre-market opening session

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_1
1 year ago

So tell everyone who needs it about such a government program, an important program, the opportunity to submit applications will soon be available offline, in the administrative service centers, in the mode usual for many Ukrainians.

National Police

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Arizonans will not have to re-register to vote. It will be business as usual for 99.9% of Arizona voters, this only effects a very small percentage of total voters, and even then, we actually grandfathered in all of those individuals who are already registered to vote that have some form of proof of citizenship on file.

Jake Hoffman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The waitlist group continued their usual treatment, whether it was counseling, medication, etc..

Jodi Gilman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We obviously didn’t expect anything like that. I thought it might get a little bit busier than usual, but then suddenly, we get to the shop on Friday and there’s a line outside the door — around the whole block, basically.

Anna Afanasieva

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I request everybody to follow the high court order and maintain peace and order, and allow the children to do their education as usual.

Basavaraj Bommai

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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