6 sentences with 'accustomed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word accustomed and other words derived from it.
• « Europeans became so accustomed to death that they often depicted it graphically and rather gruesomely in art. »
• « My little boy, whose ears were accustomed to the lullabies played by the phonograph and the soft crunch of the crackers he ate in his cot, would turn his curious gaze to where these unfamiliar noises were being made. »
• « Being a lagoon fish, it had to become accustomed to drought and was evidently able to modify its respiratory system (gills) sufficiently to move below ground. »
• « The situation of owing one's life to machines is not so new. In the 19th century, the countries that led the Industrial Revolution accustomed the world to the fact that steam engines would fantastically amplify human and animal muscle power. Today, computers do the same for some aspects of our brainpower. »
• « Gradually, however, the European settlers became accustomed to and even took up the habit of smoking, and carried it across the Atlantic. »