had habituated
- past perfect of habituate.
Example Sentences
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The University of Zurich team observed a group of bonobos from a project by local biologists that had habituated the animals over 10 to 15 years, depending on the group.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
He ignores that the British had a mandate, which entailed a distinct responsibility to protect the rights of the indigenous people who had habituated that land for countless generations.
From Newsweek ● Jan. 5, 2010
Therein were to be found a scanty flora and a fauna—each unusual and distinctive,—composed of hardy organisms, which an apprenticeship from days unthinkably ancient had habituated to their most difficult conditions of existence.
From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
When it seemed, in 1918, that mankind had habituated himself to war and that the bloody struggle would continue until the actual exhaustion and extinction of the nations involved, peace suddenly appeared.
From History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by March, Francis Andrew
Formerly a French garden had been laid out here, of which only the box borders remained; bushes which had habituated themselves to the shade, no doubt, for they grew vigorously, as tall as trees.
From Doctor Pascal by Serrano, Mary J. (Mary Jane)
