Example sentences for: wont

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

  • Yet a number of years ago, Auberon Waugh (familiarly called Bron, as the British are wont to do with public figures), the son of Evelyn Waugh, had a column in The Spectator in which he remarked: "We are all familiar with being in strange places and not knowing exactly where we are.

  • This casual use of the auxiliary do seems to be creeping back into English usage, especially among waiters for some reason, who are increasingly wont to announce, “As the catch of the day, we do have red snapper.

  • For example, puddle-jumper is defined as RAF (1942) slang for a small communications aircraft; that might be coincidence, but it surely is of American origin, traceable back to the gear in which Uncle Don was wont to arrive for his radio program on rainy days in the early 1930s.

  • Rather, I argue that it cannot be blithely discounted, as is Finkelstein's wont.

  • TBWA Chiat/Day and Wieden & Kennedy certainly exaggerated their radicalism, as advertising people are wont to do, but the 1984 Apple ad and the original "Just Do It" ads for Nike did look qualitatively different from what had come before.


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