Example sentences for: accustomed

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

  • Occasionally--and particularly for those not accustomed to the dialect--their pronunciation of certain words can lead to embarrassing misunderstandings, as the following tale from my youth may illustrate:

  • Still, in a nation accustomed to thinking of "official races," they'll feel pressure to form an interest group: multiculturalism's latest aggrieved tribe.

  • With experience, one becomes accustomed to the arrogance of the British who consider the term English to be proprietary, with the understood meaning `British English,' presumably implying that all other Englishes should carry a label, the only place where ( real ) English is spoken being Britain.

  • His framing is the least insistent of any major director, which is especially radical in a genre where audiences are accustomed to having their gaze directed.

  • Human beings are accustomed to a certain amount of imprecision in language: not only does each of use give a slightly different interpretation to the concepts represented by words like good, justice, and God, but our speech is peppered with expressions like I mean, Y' know , and I don't get you . But in the field of learning disabilities, itself a vague, catch-all term suggestive of many interpretations, the onomasiological problem reached such a state of confusion some years ago-- as described in Chapter Two of the subject book-- that in 1964 the U.S. government commissioned a task force devoted to the terminology alone.


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