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Example sentences for "wont"

Lexicographically close words:
wonner; wonnerful; wonnot; wons; wonst; wonte; wonted; woo; wood; woodbine
  1. I guess she'll be glad 'nough ter see us 'n wont you be glad to see her, though?

  2. She's just wringing her hands and crying, and a saying that she's afraid that they're lost and wont be found.

  3. To whome he answered, "I want my handis, wharewith I wont to geve yow almes.

  4. He was wont to lend money for a Christian courtesy; let him look to his bond.

  5. He was wont to call me usurer; let him look to his bond.

  6. Your worship was wont to tell me I could do nothing without bidding.

  7. O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly To seal love's bonds new made than they are wont To keep obliged faith unforfeited!

  8. And hence, under the most intense excitement, hunters were wont to keep a watchful eye upon their guns in order that they might not fail.

  9. My friends, take care and have compassion; we are not wont to think much about women, hapless women; we trust to the fact that women have not received the education of men.

  10. Two lovers are not usually followed so far, and we are wont to turn our back on the drama so soon as it puts a bridegroom's bouquet in its button-hole.

  11. Ay, and it is thy wont to help this house beyond all right and law.

  12. Now this beast had the face and breast of a fair woman, but the feet and claws of a lion; and it was wont to ask a riddle of such as encountered it; and such as answered not aright it would tear and devour.

  13. More was wont to do, would nedes be counted lyke vnto him.

  14. And here, for my pleasure I purpose a litle, by the way, to play and sporte with my Master Tully: from whom commonlie I am neuer wont to dissent.

  15. Her mouth was still sweet, although the lips parted more easily over the little teeth, and even in breathing, and showed more of them than she was wont to do before.

  16. He was, sans doubte, wont to be sober, staid, lad enough.

  17. Poetry, painting, and music, principally fascinated, as they are ever wont to do, the feeling and romantic mind of youth.

  18. It surprised Aletta and Sara to find that Elsie did not reply when spoken to, but she had been so long a law unto herself that no particular notice was wont to be taken of her peculiarities.

  19. In imagination she was already passing her hands over his face, as she had been wont to do when she wanted to read his mood, and smoothing out the lines of suffering.

  20. This was a blind Hottentot beggar whom he met being led by a little child to the street-corner where he was wont to ply his trade.

  21. These were the watch-houses from which, in yet older times, the approach of the Indian Fleet was wont to be signalled to the Castle.

  22. Where are the generous sentiments--the splendid outbursts--the fervid eloquence with which Michael Allcraft was wont to greet the recital of any one short history of oppression and dishonesty?

  23. To those who had been wont to see Amanda's mother bent and crushed with years and sorrow, the woman that now stood in the firelight would not have been recognised as Mrs. Stott.

  24. He looked for the shadow of her form as it was wont to fall on the hearth, but there was only a blank.

  25. I hope this passionate humour of mine will change; it was wont to hold me but while one tells twenty.

  26. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

  27. Cousin, thou wast not wont to be so dull.

  28. Indians who are wont to paint themselves habitually, go after a funeral totally unbedecked with colour.

  29. Early in the morning Symeon was wont to leave his hut, twine a garland of herbs, break a bough from a tree, and thus crowned and sceptred enter the city.

  30. Every day he was wont to bathe, and before entering the water, he entrusted his ring, wherein lay his power, to one of his wives.

  31. The professor, the moment that his sufferings began, was wont to leave his bed and spend his night in jumping on to his table, and then jumping down again, till the pain ceased.

  32. She was not much of a talker, not very merry, and it was her wont to go to church every day before beginning her daily task.

  33. The Californian Indians were wont to break the spine of the corpse so as to paralyse his lower limbs, and make "walking" impossible.

  34. Then opening the door, she entered the room, and beheld her cousin Mary seated at a small work-table, at which it was her wont to read.

  35. I was not wont to be thus overcome by reverse.

  36. At this marriage there was neither pleasure nor pastime used, as use was wont to be used when princes were married.

  37. I was wont to sit upon at my dear father's!

  38. I wont take any wine," said Reginald, with an effort.

  39. Samuel may not have been quite the Solomon he was wont to estimate himself.

  40. Yet through the night and through the day, The dog was never seen-- "He is not wont to stay away, Where can the dog have been?

  41. We have it in Great Britain in the rule that "the English, when the bride comes from church, are wont to cast wheat upon her head.

  42. In the first place, no savage fixes the boundary line between man and the lower forms of animal life so definitely as more civilized races are wont to do.

  43. Hartley Parrish was wont to say that he paid his butler and housekeeper well to save himself from worry.

  44. His chin was set rather more squarely than his wont and his eyes were shining.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wont" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.