How to Use accustom in a Sentence

accustom

verb

• The Benz is accustomed to big crowds.
  — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
• That lone elk was accustomed to staying on the move.
  — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
• 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
• Third basemen are accustomed to diving left or right.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
• His favorite targets were guys not accustomed to being at the top of the stat sheet.
  — Idaho Statesman, 29 Nov. 2025
• Users of Meta products are accustomed to the apps being tweaked on a whim.
  — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2024
• At home, Drew was accustomed to taking baths with Keller close by.
  — Mandy McLaren, courier-journal.com, 25 Mar. 2020
• 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
• Truth be told, this is not the kind of Spurs team anybody is accustomed to seeing.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 9 Feb. 2020
• For investors who were accustomed to near-zero rates, this was a major shift.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
• Lavar Scott is accustomed to reaching top speeds around a racetrack.
  — Devin Jackson, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2026
• But evening-news audiences, accustomed to a format that has worn well for many decades, didn’t bite.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Many men, accustomed to bottling up their feelings, are already afraid to show what’s in their heart and on their mind.
  — Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 9 June 2025
• Hardly a travesty, but not what a 5-star guest might be accustomed to.
  — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 23 Apr. 2026
• The best bowlers, of course — and those who are accustomed to playing with that brand of ball — use this to their advantage.
  — Michael Cox, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
• 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
• By that time, my children were accustomed to the routine of changing houses.
  — Tara Conklin, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2019
• It’s called a vestibular trainer, and figure skaters worldwide use it to help accustom their brains to all that whirling.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Jan. 2022
• And Kansas City, so far, hasn’t looked much like the team to which fans had grown accustomed the past two years.
  — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2026
• And in a league accustomed to rapid change, hesitation is the simplest way to get left behind.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2026
• Instead of the two-day festival that music fans are accustomed to, the event will only take place one day.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2025
• But that’s a different kind of trick than the kind the brothers are accustomed to performing.
  — Abby Ohlheiser, Washington Post, 25 July 2019
• Hamner, who is thirty-three, is accustomed to places in crisis.
  — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
• The year 2025 looms large for healthcare—a field accustomed to bold promises and slow progress.
  — Jeffrey Wessler, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
• Cuba is a cash economy, and not a cash economy in the way you may be accustomed to thinking of one.
  — Moriah Balingit, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
• 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
• By now, most of us are well-accustomed with the wonders of Korean skin-care products.
  — Allure, 22 Aug. 2019
• Sally was accustomed to the dense whitetail cover back in Michigan, and this didn’t look right to her.
  — Robert Merchant, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2025