accustomed

IPA: ʌkˈʌstʌmd

adjective

  • Familiar with something through repeated experience; adapted to existing conditions. (of a person)
  • Familiar through use; usual; customary. (of a thing, condition, activity, etc.)
  • (archaic) Frequented by customers.
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Examples of "accustomed" in Sentences

  • Playing to the standards to which Green Bay fans have grown accustomed is something else.
  • Tell us all again about how: the resulting probabilities would look very different from the probabilities to which we are accustomed is great science.
  • We are, in short, accustomed to taking cues from the outside world, filtering them through a neural network, and writing our own novel inside our head.
  • Spencer Aimes is just your average, undercover, government-hired super-assassin accustomed to a life of exotic European locales, flashy sports cars and even flashier women.
  • "Accustomed!" said Belinda, smiling: "one does grow accustomed even to disagreeable things certainly; but at this rate, my dear Lady Anne, I do not doubt but one might grow _accustomed_ to Caliban."
  • You in Canada have not had that history, but are a part of the great British Empire, and you have been accustomed from the first to think in terms of Imperial power, and therefore of the relations of nations one to another.
  • The bifurcation between the working poor and the middle class in a capitalist society means that by following the chain of hierarchy to which we have become accustomed translates into those that are most able to exude power being over represented.
  • To take away from an old woman whose life has been spent in household cares all the foolish little belongings to which her affections cling and to which her very fingers have become accustomed, is to take away her last incentive to activity, almost to life itself.

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