Example Sentences

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And new technologies have accustomed consumers to sharing ideas online with their peers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2016

Or will it just encourage and embed all the worst tendencies to which we have accustomed ourselves?

From The Guardian • Dec. 22, 2015

Years of budget battles have accustomed many companies in the industry to preparing for rainy days.

From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2012

Reviewing “Dexter” in The Times in 2008, Ginia Bellafante wrote, “Dexter Morgan is continually differentiating himself, in ways both philosophical and mundane, from the street-grade sociopaths pulp fiction and local news have accustomed us to.”

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2010

I have set this as my standard, and have accustomed myself to follow it instinctively, and without wasting any thought upon it.

From The Book of Life by Sinclair, Upton