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Meaning accustomed meaning
What does accustomed mean?
accustomed
Synonyms accustomed synonyms
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Examples accustomed examples
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Simple sentences
I am accustomed to working hard.
They are accustomed to hard work.
Tom is accustomed to hard work.
Tom is accustomed to staying up late.
Tom is accustomed to winning.
One can get accustomed to anything.
Tom is accustomed to getting his own way.
I'm not accustomed to being on my own.
You will soon get accustomed to living here.
You will soon get accustomed to your new school.
You'll soon get accustomed to this cold weather.
I'm already accustomed to the heat of summer.
My nephew was accustomed to sitting up late.
I am already accustomed to sitting on tatami.
Bob is accustomed to hard work.
I'm not accustomed to getting up so early.
Jimmy was accustomed to his friends making fun of him.
I am accustomed to eating this sort of food.
You will soon get accustomed to the noises.
I have recently become accustomed to his way of speaking.
We are accustomed to wearing shoes.
He was not accustomed to sleeping alone.
You'll soon get accustomed to the work.
You will soon get accustomed to living in this country.
You'll soon get accustomed to your new college life.
My daughter won't find it easy to get accustomed to the new school.
I'm accustomed to sleeping in a room without air conditioning.
I'm not accustomed to such treatment.
I am accustomed to living alone.
Movie subtitles
I hope you're accustomed to losing.
But I'm not accustomed to riding with strangers.
We are so accustomed to watching our feet.
I am not accustomed to waiting, Richard.
I have said farewell to everything I've been accustomed to regard as indispensable.
Alberto will have to get accustomed to talking in front of me.
No, you are accustomed to.
We are already accustomed.
American women aren't accustomed to gallantry.
Not what I'm accustomed to, no.
I'm afraid they're not accustomed to catering for so many people.
Fortunately I'm accustomed to squalor. Tell me.
Mr. Kristian is accustomed to Robert.
I'm accustomed to tobacco and alcohol.
This proves that Ms. Delange was accustomed to lying from a young age and her father no longer trusted her.
We are so accustomed to the wonderful character actor Henry Travers being cast as a whimsical, bemused benign person, often slightly eccentric, that it's curious here to see him playing seemingly straight and sombre.
Her father, our King. brought up this child as a boy. accustomed her ears to the sound of cannon fire. and sought to mold her spirit after his own.
However, I've become accustomed to regard you. as one of those extraordinary women. who create their own laws and logic.
I'm not accustomed to handling anything so delicate, so valuable.
You're not accustomed to hearing the truth.
We're not accustomed to catering to so many people.
Sure. I am accustomed to squalor.
I'm not accustomed to this.
I'm accustomed to being up after dark.
Spoiled people are accustomed to having their way.
Miss Blake, I am not accustomed to insubordination.
I'll have to get accustomed to the name.
I am not accustomed to speaking in public.
I already thought, because it's all a bit unfamiliar to you. but I think you will get accustomed to me.
It might cause some disappointment since they got accustomed to the new flats.
You are not accustomed to having yourself announced.
You're distressed now, but in time you'll become accustomed to the idea. You'll give us your blessing.
But this fellow looks as if he lived by hunting. He'll be accustomed to firearms.
News and current affairs
This may reflect what people are accustomed to.
Above all, the term was an effort to communicate to Americans, accustomed to waging war with speed and decisiveness (and insistent on it since Vietnam), the long-term sacrifice and commitment needed to win a war of survival.
He spent his time making sure the political coalition to support the Texas Rangers in the style to which it wanted to be accustomed remained stable.
For the Shia religious hierarchy, long accustomed to relegating the advent of the Mahdi to a distant future, Ahmadinejad's insistent millenarianism is troublesome.
Westerners used to pluralistic democracy may find it hard to understand what a potentially huge shift this will be in a country accustomed to military rule for over 50 years.
But governments in developing countries are often accustomed to controlling all aspects of their economies and tend not to want regulators to promote competition.
After all, the ruling communist oligarchs have grown accustomed to a comfortable lifestyle.
We noticed that our monetary policy was no longer having the effect on private borrowing costs to which we were accustomed.
Americans, including farmers, are more accustomed to paying for innovative technologies and products--a disposition reflected in a recent US Supreme Court decision that extended the scope of patents on plants.
We see the menace of this tendency constantly nowadays, but we perceive it in such a seemingly unthreatening way that we may well become accustomed to it rather than arresting it.
For a region not always accustomed to things going well, this is a somewhat strange state of affairs.
It will require significant resources, and the process risks angering domestic companies that have become accustomed to a lack of regulatory oversight.
Many companies - particularly multinational firms accustomed to old and aging populations in the advanced countries - will have to adapt accordingly.
But, either way, the bipolar political system to which Italians were getting accustomed is unlikely to survive unscathed.
Both books apply to the past the lens that Argentines are accustomed to using when they look at the present: the lens of the press.
The GCC should be accustomed to conflicting perspectives on regional design and differing degrees of cooperation across regional actors, and it should draw on these differences as a source of strength.
We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.
China was already accustomed to rapacious Western powers squabbling over its riches, but had remained self-confident in the knowledge of these powers' irrelevance.
The problem is that Europeans have become so accustomed to muddling through that long-term solutions seem all but impossible.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the world has become accustomed to such linkages and spillovers.
They have become accustomed in recent years to making deals among themselves and more or less imposing them on the ten non-permanent members.
It is inconceivable, though, that the Chinese would enter into the kind of massive US-style military intervention to which the world has grown accustomed in recent years.
If you want to meet governments on their home ground, you have to provide a product that, in terms of the depth and accuracy of its research and the style of its presentation, the best of them are accustomed to and demand.
In contrast to Europe - with its close-knit network of multilateral organizations through which states formulate and conduct much of their foreign policies - Russia is not accustomed to intensively cooperative international procedures.