Example Sentences

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But, Brown reasoned, this was because they were designed for the wrong audience—vegetarians, the five per cent of the population who had accustomed themselves to the pallid satisfactions of bean sprouts and quinoa.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2019

He said his early experience as a star athlete had accustomed him to the kind of attention he’s now receiving.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2019

Many also “came from the evangelical denominations; years of Bible reading and fundamentalist revivalism had accustomed them to millennial solutions.”

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2016

Years of practice had accustomed him to my barely understandable speech, as well as the perversity of my thoughts.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2013

Men said he was just... and if his was a harsh, hard-handed sort of justice, well, life on the Iron Islands had accustomed Asha Greyjoy to that.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin