Example sentences for: accustomed

How can you use “accustomed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is the fact that we have gotten so accustomed to the inequity that we do not see it as obscene.

  • The FBI is accustomed to carrying out sensitive intelligence collection operations in compliance with the law.

  • Because residents are accustomed to double-parking on days when street-cleaning takes place--you double-park from 8 to 11 a.m., blocking in all the people who are parked legally--the crackdown was assailed as the effective criminalization of an accepted social custom.

  • Yet at least for the CIA, part of the burden in tackling terrorism arose from the background we have described: an organization capable of attracting extraordinarily motivated people but institutionally averse to risk, with its capacity for covert action atrophied, predisposed to restrict the distribution of information, having difficulty assimilating new types of personnel, and accustomed to presenting descriptive reportage of the latest intelligence.

  • So in shops and offices all over the country we encountered English, but not as we were accustomed to hearing it spoken.


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