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Example sentences for "are accustomed"

  • We are accustomed to a similar mode of speaking every day, without being checked by these extraordinary occurrences, of which no one is ignorant.

  • Fractures with solution of continuity were, as a rule, easy of detection, but the relative prominence of the classical signs varied somewhat from what we are accustomed to see in civil practice.

  • Secondly, it is taken for any gift freely bestowed, as we are accustomed to say: I do you this act of grace.

  • But things "which we are accustomed to, are pleasant," as the Philosopher says (Rhet.

  • First, for anyone's love, as we are accustomed to say that the soldier is in the good graces of the king, i.

  • Such quantities may also be called flowing, because synthesis (of the productive imagination) in the production of these quantities is a progression in time, the continuity of which we are accustomed to indicate by the expression flowing.

  • And yet the hope of better fortune never deserts those who are accustomed to the dogmatical mode of procedure.

  • Accordingly, we are accustomed to say that the former is a cognition which represents the object itself, whilst the latter presents only a particular appearance or phenomenon thereof.

  • We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

  • We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

  • CAREW Where I Lived, and What I Lived For At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

  • The French journals, we are accustomed to say, are not newspapers at all.

  • We are accustomed to think that with the advent of the genuine novel of society, in the first part of this century, a great step forward was taken in fiction.

  • We are accustomed to speak of Christ's perfect life of unselfishness, and His death of pure beneficence, as being the great manifestation to us all that in His heart there is an infinite fountain of love to us.

  • We are accustomed to hear from many lips: 'I have no use for these dogmas that Paul delights in.

  • Material objects we are accustomed to designate as good or bad according as they are well or ill adapted to achieve prescribed ends.

  • We are accustomed to say that a man has inherited certain qualities; but the man is not one thing and the inherited qualities another; the whole man is inherited.

  • Every possible experiment in sexual association has been tried, and is still practised among various barbarous races, with very little reference to those moral ideas to which we are accustomed.

  • It is very difficult for us even to believe in a relationship of the mother and the father that is so exactly opposite to that with which we are accustomed.

  • We shall see that this land has its own customs, and its own laws, entirely at variance with all those to which we are accustomed.

  • It will be observed that, with one exception, his restrictions leave the area of civilization as wide as that which we are accustomed to assign to it in our ordinary speaking and thinking.

  • And you will pardon me for saying that we are accustomed to speak of some persons and families abroad which have the highest rank as being thoroughly bad blood.

  • We are accustomed, for instance, to sloping roofs; the fact that they were necessary has made them familiar, and the fact that they are familiar has made them objects of study and of artistic enjoyment.

  • We are accustomed to think of prudence as estranging us only from low and ignoble things; we forget that utility and the need of system in our lives is a bar also to the free flights of the spirit.

  • But most of us are accustomed to consider reason the prerogative and peculiarity of man.

  • But when we are accustomed to see a monkey taking off his hat, or playing a tambourine, or even smoking a pipe, we by degrees see nothing laughable in the performance.

  • We have also an especial tendency to adopt the view that what we are accustomed to is right.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    administrator appointed; after puberty; are able; are accustomed; are all; are always; are apt; are called; are given; are here; are obliged; are only; are said; are the best known; are they; are those; are used; are very; are you; awfully glad; four forty; might even; personal being; she stood before him; soft paste; solar myth