Forgive my candor, though such is my wont, but much like that moose on a spit, Bernie is dead.
The U.K. tabloids, as is their wont, have branded her “shameless,” “sordid,” and “the scourge of society.”
It has been, as contestants on TV talent shows are wont to say, a “journey.”
Allen responded with his own op-ed in the Times, and the media, as is their wont, proceeded to pick sides.
As celebrities on the movie promotion circuit are wont to do, Cameron Diaz is hawking her latest cause celebre.
Speak to me as is your wont—with the same kindliness and warmth—you know I am bound to you.
I am a peaceful trader, and I am not wont to be so shouted at upon so small a matter.
Burke took refuge, as his wont was when too hard pressed, in a mighty bellow.
Indeed, on the morrow she seated herself at the work-frame and embroidered as she was wont to do.
You told me that you and your father were wont to go out together in the morning.
"accustomed," Old English wunod, past participle of wunian "to dwell, be accustomed," from Proto-Germanic *wun- "to be content, to rejoice" (cf. Old Saxon wunon, Old Frisian wonia "to dwell, remain, be used to," Old High German wonen, German wohnen "to dwell;" related to Old English winnan, gewinnan "to win" (see win) and to wean. The noun meaning "habitual usage, custom" is attested from c.1300.
contraction of will not, first recorded mid-15c. as wynnot, later wonnot (1580s) before the modern form emerged 1660s. See will.
