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.

  • 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.

  • Then, as was his wont, Johnson took his guest hunting.

  • As was their wont in those less orderly days, Giants fans immediately came swarming onto the field when their team won, and Merkle wanted to get a head start on the happy mob.


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