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"Used to" in a Sentence (15 examples)
I am very used to cleaning up other people’s mess.
I became/grew quite used to his ways.
I got used to this weather.
“Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.
He was shivering a little, for he had always been used to sleeping in a proper bed, and by this time his coat had worn so thin and threadbare from hugging that it was no longer any protection to him.
Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street and now you're gonna have to get used to it.
You never used to like soap operas, did you? I used to like that band long ago, and I was surprised I still do. I used to know a guy from the UK who pronounced "mother" with the "r". It used to be me who ran the company. There used to be open fields here. Now it's a shopping mall.
I always used to go to the seaside in August as a child.
He used to live here, but moved away last year.
The club used to be frequented by locals; then, after the "incident", it used to get raided by the cops.
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My wife used not to be so hot-tempered.
They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
1980, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson (lyrics), Agnetha Fältskog (lead vocalist), ABBA, The Winner Takes It All But tell me does she kiss like I used to kiss you? / Does it feel the same, when she calls your name?
When I was a kid I used to think it was all the same clouds that kept coming by.
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