All 12 Uses of
accustomed
in
Anna Karenina
- The princess had grown accustomed to this already with her other daughters, but now she felt that there was more ground for the prince's touchiness.†
Part 1
- She felt her eyes opening wider and wider, her fingers and toes twitching nervously, something within oppressing her breathing, while all shapes and sounds seemed in the uncertain half-light to strike her with unaccustomed vividness.†
Part 1
- But though Stepan Arkadyevitch was accustomed to very different dinners, he thought everything excellent: the herb brandy, and the bread, and the butter, and above all the salt goose and the mushrooms, and the nettle soup, and the chicken in white sauce, and the white Crimean wine—— everything was superb and delicious.†
Part 2
- Although all Vronsky's inner life was absorbed in his passion, his external life unalterably and inevitably followed along the old accustomed lines of his social and regimental ties and interests.†
Part 2 *
- And since no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions, they never agreed in any opinion, and had long, indeed, been accustomed to jeer without anger, each at the other's incorrigible aberrations.†
Part 4
- I wanted…. yes, I wanted to talk to you," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, with surprise aware of an unaccustomed timidity.†
Part 4
- I wanted to have a little talk with you about my sister and your mutual position," he said, still struggling with an unaccustomed constraint.†
Part 4
- He saw that it was not all sitting still, floating smoothly; that one had to think too, not for an instant to forget where one was floating; and that there was water under one, and that one must row; and that his unaccustomed hands would be sore; and that it was only to look at it that was easy; but that doing it, though very delightful, was very difficult.†
Part 5
- The conversation was a difficult one for the lady of the house at a small table with persons present, like the steward and the architect, belonging to a completely different world, struggling not to be overawed by an elegance to which they were unaccustomed, and unable to sustain a large share in the general conversation.†
Part 6
- It seemed to him something extraneous, superfluous, to which he could not accustom himself.†
Part 7
- He turned away while Lizaveta Petrovna put the baby to the unaccustomed breast.†
Part 7
- It was impossible not to look after the affairs of Sergey Ivanovitch, of his sister, of the peasants who came to him for advice and were accustomed to do so——as impossible as to fling down a child one is carrying in one's arms.†
Part 8
Definition:
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(accustom) to make someone used to something
(used to is an expression that means someone has adapted to something, so it does not seem unusual)editor's notes: In professional environments, you may make a better impression by saying one is accustomed to something rather than one is used to something.