How to Use accustom in a Sentence

accustom

verb

• They were accustomed to training exercises off San Diego and spent time in port in Hawaii.
  — Howard Cohen, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 July 2017
• Businesses that were accustomed to having a wide selection of employees would start to complain of a labor shortage.
  — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 9 Aug. 2017
• Accustomed to awarding Knight’s grants, Haggman will now have to get used to asking political donors for campaign cash.
  — Patricia Mazzei and Alex Daugherty, miamiherald, 1 Aug. 2017
• The American people of the 1970s were accustomed to Rollers that weren’t Rollers.
  — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 4 July 2017
• Though often inept and low-rent, the system transformed scruffy barrio cliques into bands of revenue-generating soldiers accustomed to taking orders from outsiders.
  — Sam Quinones, Los Angeles Magazine, 25 Sep. 2017
• By the time of the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler was already accustomed to failure.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
• She should be accustomed to the ways of some football fans by now, but her fans are not.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
• Users of Meta products are accustomed to the apps being tweaked on a whim.
  — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2024
• For them, this means the meds they are accustomed to taking may be harder to get.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2024
• We’re no longer accustomed to the Apples and Googles of the world wowing us with new products.
  — Peter C. Baker, New York Times, 6 June 2024
• Truth be told, this is not the kind of Spurs team anybody is accustomed to seeing.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 9 Feb. 2020
• By Week 5, the new players on offense were accustomed to the team’s Power-T scheme and the defense looked like one of the best in the state.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 13 Nov. 2019
• Phoenix is the hottest city in the country, and its 1.6 million people are accustomed to summer in the desert.
  — Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2023
• Brooks said the biggest challenge this spring has been getting accustomed to the pace of play.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2024
• At home, Drew was accustomed to taking baths with Keller close by.
  — Mandy McLaren, courier-journal.com, 25 Mar. 2020
• When one is accustomed to and feels deserving of the whole pie, even a crumb going to the hungry can conjure the pain of loss.
  — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 19 June 2024
• This rare shrub is accustomed to lengthy, hot, dry summers.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2024
• But militia rule has accustomed many to the idea that power belongs to whomever has the guns.
  — Max Fisher, Amanda Taub and Dalia MartÍnez, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2018
• The depleted version may not lap the AL West field as we've been accustomed.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 23 Mar. 2023
• As someone who is accustomed to getting bites that get large, angry, and swollen — and can stay that way for a week!
  — Aly Walansky, Travel + Leisure, 18 July 2023
• As for sounds, white noise is a pretty fail-safe choice for most babies who are accustomed to the noise of their mother’s womb.
  — Sarah Bradley, Parents, 10 July 2023
• The Chiefs, meanwhile, are accustomed to being in this spot, playing in the Thursday night opener for the third time in five years.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024
• And Poggi, who wore his customary white shirt with cut-off sleeves, is accustomed to the bright lights.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 10 Sep. 2023
• They’re accustomed to an on-the-go lifestyle in which convenient snacks are the norm rather than three sit-down meals daily.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 27 May 2023
• But that’s a different kind of trick than the kind the brothers are accustomed to performing.
  — Abby Ohlheiser, Washington Post, 25 July 2019
• This entire process as been something I wasn't accustomed to.
  — Matthew Glenesk, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2023
• As a result, many users are already accustomed to opening the TV app to find content.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2023
• For the rap community, which was accustomed to seeing the genre’s on the verge artists ignored on Grammy night, the snubs were still painful.
  — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 19 Oct. 2017
• Unfortunately, the employees were accustomed to highly specialized roles, and lacked the necessary flexibility to tackle jobs outside their areas of expertise.
  — Aytekin Tank, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• For many Cubans, far removed from politics and accustomed to regular power outages, the nationwide blackout was nothing more than a normal Friday night.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024