How to Use accustomed in a Sentence
accustomed
adjective- She arrived early enough to get her accustomed seat in the front row.
- Josh felt uncomfortably full, as he was not accustomed to eating so much.
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Brink, the ten or so doctors, and the staff, are accustomed to worse.
— Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 30 July 2022 -
But will that be enough to keep them in the north meadow when they are accustomed to the run of the whole park?
— Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2022 -
Certainly, the fans will have to get accustomed to the change, too.
— Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2023 -
There’s a long list of things Scott is trying to get accustomed to.
— Stephen Means, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2022 -
The Aztecs have been more accustomed for a decade with being the favorite.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022 -
But that doesn’t matter to the masses of a fan base that has grown accustomed to elite QB play.
— oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2022 -
And give yourself some more time to get accustomed to this way of working.
— Roxane Gay, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022 -
Still, Edgar-Jones, 24, isn't accustomed to all of the attention.
— Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 15 July 2022 -
Day said that this has helped the young flyers on the spectrum get more accustomed to the protocols at their own pace.
— Sarah Caliguire, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2023 -
And the more that people see these sorts of stories, the more that people will become accustomed.
— Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 16 May 2024 -
In the last clip, Baptista, 25, appeared accustomed to Evans' jokes.
— Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 29 June 2023 -
Noé Ramirez is much more accustomed to making an impact with his arm rather than his legs, feet and glove.
— José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2022 -
In their post, the fire department made light of the fact that their team is more accustomed to rescuing cats stuck in trees.
— Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023 -
You may be accustomed to Twitter’s photo limit that caps the number of pics in a post at 4.
— WIRED, 23 Nov. 2022 -
There’s a sense Yancey has grown accustomed to these kinds of scenarios.
— Kyle Eustice, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2023 -
The travelers, who all live near Denver, are accustomed to the extremes of the outdoors.
— Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022 -
Meanwhile, Joel and Brad get accustomed to their new arrangement when Joel sells his house and moves in with his beau.
— Andy Swift, TVLine, 7 Oct. 2024 -
Really gotten accustomed to the desert-like DPs of the past couple weeks.
— Molly Robey, Washington Post, 11 June 2023 -
In a statement at the time, Colorado Parks and Wildlife had said that bears have grown accustomed to breaking into cars to steal food.
— Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023 -
While buyers may have grown accustomed to the higher rates, many sellers have not.
— Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024 -
By now, most of us are well accustomed to the wonders of Korean skin-care products.
— Devon Abelman, Allure, 4 Nov. 2022 -
The second measurement to get accustomed to is the megaton.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023 -
Ashley and her son had become accustomed to the safety of having a police car parked in front of their house.
— Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 3 May 2024 -
Karie Davies, who added that geese are common in the area and have become accustomed to being around people.
— Mona Darwish, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024 -
Seeing a little body lying still on the ground gives her a pang, but she’s become accustomed to it.
— Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 18 Aug. 2023 -
Auburn spent the last six weeks getting accustomed to this new era on the Plains, as Hugh Freeze and his staff guided the Tigers through their first spring together.
— Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 12 Apr. 2023 -
In fact, so many moms were expecting that the kids became accustomed to pregnant bellies.
— Jessica Schneider, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024 -
As the sector evolves and audiences become accustomed to digging into docs to feed their fandom, anthologies have proven to be valuable frames for a wide range of stories.
— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2024
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