How to Use used to in a Sentence

used to

verb

• The mafia used to loom large here.
  — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 22 May 2026
• The grant used to pay her salary had dried up.
  — Darlene Superville, Fortune, 29 May 2026
• The steel beams will be used to build the cryostats.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
• There's a lot more cracks than there used to be.
  — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 28 June 2026
• Fans, by the way, who didn't used to love Kyle.
  — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026
• There used to be a casino, but that’s now long gone.
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 22 May 2026
• How does a child at any age get used to the loss of a parent?
  — Liz Shulman, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
• Approvals that used to take minutes now take days.
  — Nick Chandi, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• That is a big change from the stop-and-go motion we are used to seeing.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
• Can it be sold, shared or used to train AI systems?
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2026
• The willow out front, where the children used to play, was thick and crooked with age.
  — Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
• This isn’t the sort of thing Maxine is used to doing.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 June 2026
• Features that used to take a month can now take an afternoon.
  — Alexej Kovernikov, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• What Chris is writing here is how movie scripts used to be written.
  — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026
• Their owners used to claim a loophole in the state’s gambling laws.
  — Jeff A. Chamer may 15, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2026
• Decisions that used to vanish now leave a trail.
  — Maria Colacurcio, Fortune, 28 June 2026
• Bob Melet, who used to have a spot here in New York for years.
  — Wengel Gemu, Vanity Fair, 12 June 2026
• Nearly all those funds have been used to shrink pension debt or build reserves.
  — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 1 May 2026
• Snow and cold are not what people along the Front Range are used to this year.
  — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
• If agents replace the work, why keep paying per seat for the humans who used to do it?
  — Krish Ramineni, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• The other selection could be used to dangle as bait for a trade.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 19 June 2026
• He was used to moving from village to village and a life of constant work.
  — Colin Millar, New York Times, 27 June 2026
• What used to be a slow month for recruiting is now integral to the process.
  — Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 12 June 2026
• The same tools draft and model in an afternoon what used to consume a month.
  — Maria Colacurcio, Fortune, 28 June 2026
• It is used to shoot missiles out of the sky that are targeting civilians.
  — Dan Adler, Vanity Fair, 15 May 2026
• Yes, apple cider vinegar can be used to clean a coffee maker.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 22 May 2026
• My granddaddy always used to say to make hay while the sun's shining.
  — Sarah Sotoodeh, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
• The rare alert was first used to warn of tornado conditions.
  — CBS News, 27 June 2026
• The rare alert was first used to warn of tornado conditions.
  — Kathy McCormack, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
• These tasks used to be handled by several types of aircraft.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026