Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "people used"

  • In Germany, people used to crown their heads or gird their bodies with mugwort, which they afterwards threw into the midsummer bonfire, pronouncing certain rhymes and believing that they thus rid themselves of all their ill-luck.

  • Near Peronne, in the French department of Somme, people used to go out fasting before sunrise on St. John's Day to cull the plant; put among the wheat in the barn it protected the corn against mice.

  • I don' know whe' it true or no, but de people used to say I took after my mother.

  • People used to know how to carry demselves en take care of demselves more den dey do now.

  • Oh, I hear talk bout all kind of signs de people used to worry over en some of dem still frets bout dem, too.

  • Yes, mam, de people used to have more chillun en dey raised dem, too.

  • People used ox teams in place of mule and horse teams.

  • People used to sing more religious songs seems like than they do now.

  • People used to stick their heads under washpots to sing and pray.

  • People used to go about saying that the Germans were the hereditary enemy, and that the Fatherland was taking the lead of all other countries.

  • When he sat thus, pondering over and fingering some perfectly familiar object, people used to say, "Now Bjerregrav's questioning fit is coming on!

  • Yes," people used to say, "such a nice couple!

  • People used to think they could trust in their gods.

  • People used to suppose they knew all about the next world.

  • People used to have a notion that he who grasped and retained everything he could get hold of was the fortunate, the successful man.

  • As for church, in de olden times, people used to, more or less, attend under de bush-arbor.

  • Yes, mam, dat de kind of a spider dat de people used to cook dey cake in.

  • De people used to have a bird for cold weather, too.

  • De people used to spin en weave, my Lord!

  • People used to wonder why the Dogherty family were so fond of that wild situation, so far away from all human kind, and in the midst of huge scattered rocks, with nothing but the wide ocean to look upon.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "people used" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    answer thee; became highly; celui qui; double consciousness; drizzling rain; feet diameter; fine sight; graham bread; great comfort; love doth; people are; people called; people have; people said; people shall; people should; people think; people used; people were; people whom; pretty little; principal object; quite contrary; remarkable case; shall need; when from