How to Use customarily in a Sentence
customarily
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We’re not customarily taught to spot diet culture or to call it out.
—Mallary Tenore Tarpley, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
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This customarily needs to be done at the start of therapy and when taking on new clients.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
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Observers customarily give to the needy, send gifts to friends and neighbors, and cook a festive meal.
—Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
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The band doesn’t customarily give interviews, but two members agree to meet with me.
—Madelyn Dawson, SPIN, 15 Aug. 2024
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These oud wood chips produce a fragrant smoke when heated over charcoal that is customarily used to scent clothes and your home.
—Mary Honkus, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Nov. 2025
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The method is banned in some countries and isn’t customarily invoked by women against their husbands.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 18 July 2024
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Pregos are also customarily used to round off a feast of clams, shrimp or crab in marisqueiras – specialized seafood joints.
—Paul Ames, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
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Grave stones are customarily cleaned and tidied up during the visits.
—Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2025
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Rivas traveled the state to stump for them, something customarily done by the speaker.
—Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
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Enrollment customarily surges in the last few days of the sign-up period.
—Maya Goldman, Axios, 17 Dec. 2024
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The lead-up to the final vote is customarily marked by raucous public meetings across the boroughs.
—Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 18 June 2024
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The broth is what sets it apart from other dishes, and it's customarily served with chow-chow or other pickled toppings.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2025
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The broth is what sets it apart from other dishes, and it's customarily served with chow-chow or other pickled toppings.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2024
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People customarily water and feed plants in containers much more often than those in the ground.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 20 May 2024
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Unfortunately, the krewe won’t be able to pass out lumps of coal as members customarily do.
—Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 22 Nov. 2020
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And even though you would not be customarily entitled to a return, a rare exception will be made in this instance.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Doro wat is customarily served over injera, but here the stew, prepared with juicy thighs and tender drumsticks, is served on a plate with injera on the side.
—Lenore T. Adkins, Bon Appétit, 14 Jan. 2025
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On the one hand are the outrageous lies that Donald Trump customarily spews.
—Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2024
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Mind you, the orchestra has been known in the past to sprinkle a bit of Bach amid its customarily larger-scale repertoire.
—Rob Hubbard, Star Tribune, 30 Jan. 2021
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This unit will also be popular for cooking ribs, roasts, and other customarily roasted or grilled meats.
—Brad Fenson, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2023
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These are customarily served anywhere from funerals to potlucks to tailgates to parties.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
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Denial letters customarily do not give cause.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 18 May 2026
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Tea and chocolate are customarily served at the end of a meal with dessert, especially on special occasions.
—Eve Glover, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2025
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The high court customarily holds on to decisions for a month to allow time for the losing side to request another hearing.
—Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 8 May 2026
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The group asked that the court appoint its anonymous members to the seats on a temporary basis, as would be done customarily to fill a role left vacant by death.
—Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2021
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Kuku sabzi is a Persian frittata that’s customarily flavored with an abundance of fresh herbs.
—Christopher Kimball, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2023
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Journalists peeked out the shades and saw that the plane had on none of the running lights that are customarily visible, including the red or green ones on the wings.
—Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
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This is customarily referred to as chain-of-thought processing or CoT.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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The court customarily holds on to decisions for a month after they are reached to allow time for the losing side to request another hearing.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 5 May 2026
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Neither customarily signed their work.
—Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2026
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