How to Use accustomed in a Sentence

accustomed

adjective
  • She arrived early enough to get her accustomed seat in the front row.
  • Josh felt uncomfortably full, as he was not accustomed to eating so much.
  • Brink, the ten or so doctors, and the staff, are accustomed to worse.
    Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 30 July 2022
  • Our ears will have to get accustomed to the loudness of a live DJ.
    Andrew Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 June 2021
  • But will that be enough to keep them in the north meadow when they are accustomed to the run of the whole park?
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2022
  • And Rave didn’t take long to get accustomed to the new uniform.
    Kansas City Star, 19 July 2025
  • He’s become accustomed to being on the right side of the ledger.
    Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The Dodgers are becoming accustomed to this backs-to-the-wall thing.
    Scott Miller, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Certainly, the fans will have to get accustomed to the change, too.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2023
  • To those of us accustomed to the gleaming CGI of space movies, the image won’t look like much.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2021
  • There’s a long list of things Scott is trying to get accustomed to.
    Stephen Means, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The Aztecs have been more accustomed for a decade with being the favorite.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Start with fresh, brand-new tires and and just be accustomed to long hours of riding.
    George Petras, USA Today, 2 July 2021
  • That’s not the kind of outcome that Metchie and Harris are accustomed to.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 30 Apr. 2022
  • By now, Spurs fans have become accustomed to the drill.
    Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Oct. 2021
  • But that doesn’t matter to the masses of a fan base that has grown accustomed to elite QB play.
    oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Even the men who do not have voices that are accustomed to children.
    Keith Ridgway, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Reese’s has grown accustomed to running in the Super Bowl on its own steam.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
  • And give yourself some more time to get accustomed to this way of working.
    Roxane Gay, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Still, Edgar-Jones, 24, isn't accustomed to all of the attention.
    Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 15 July 2022
  • That could cause rents to tick up and the perks that many renters have grown accustomed to—like free parking—to disappear.
    William Lambers, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Martin’s play hasn’t been at the level fans have grown accustomed to seeing since he was drafted in the first round of the 2014 draft.
    Saad Yousuf, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
  • The fourth-year guard has become accustomed to going through teeth the way most people go through dirty socks.
    Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Day said that this has helped the young flyers on the spectrum get more accustomed to the protocols at their own pace.
    Sarah Caliguire, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2023
  • And the more that people see these sorts of stories, the more that people will become accustomed.
    Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 16 May 2024
  • Bonds take a while to develop, and a dog needs time to get accustomed to no longer being the only baby of the house.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 June 2025
  • The club have grown accustomed to clubs showing a strong interest in him.
    The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
  • In the last clip, Baptista, 25, appeared accustomed to Evans' jokes.
    Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 29 June 2023
  • When the games start, and the temperatures are still well into the 90s, their players are more accustomed to the heat and are better prepared for a third and fourth quarter against teams that are from north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The pantheon of magazine editors were themselves accustomed to a version of the scrutiny that Kennedy had faced his whole life.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2025

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