Example sentences for: accustomed

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

  • The Japanese spell and pronounce what they hear and are accustomed to pronounce, much as Americans are inclined to say “Kindagarden,” “ekscape,” “lawnjeray,” “asterik,” and “ekcetera.”

  • For example, nursing home providers are accustomed to designing a "thirty-day plan of correction" in response to citations given by surveyors, in which the cited system of care is quickly revised to comply with the regulation.

  • Today's TV parents are wisdom figures, not the adult buffoons we have grown accustomed to.

  • The rest of the year, life goes on at its accustomed pace: rickety machines chugging in two-man factories, children in school uniforms being ferried home to houseboats, and the old fishermen stirring shrimp paste.

  • Russian citizens, long accustomed to evasive and deceptive reports on their leaders' health, took the news of Yeltsin's illness with typical stoicism.


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