Sample Sentences for
habitual
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  • Delia's habitual meekness seemed to slip from her shoulders like a blown scarf.  (source)
    habitual = regular behavior
  • He was then a bald-headed man of forty-five, a little fat and from long association with mother and the chickens he had become habitually silent and discouraged.  (source)
    habitually = regularly
  • Habitual cruel and inhuman treatment; adultery; desertion; physical abuse.†  (source)
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  • A new commissar came to the base, and life returned to its habitual peace.†  (source)
  • Do you habitually have a sensitive stomach, Beatrice?†  (source)
  • So, usually, these habitual gargoyles get kicked out of CIC before too long.†  (source)
  • Dr. Stanpole was not patrolling the corridor as he habitually did when he was not busy, so I sat down on a bench amid the medical smells and waited.†  (source)
  • My hand worries the absence on my left side, a habitual gesture now.†  (source)
  • To minimize the evidence found on him when the police habitually came his way, he set up loot-stashing sites around town, including a three-seater cave that he dug in a nearby forest.†  (source)
  • It's a face that hints at habitual hard living.†  (source)
  • Following the professor into the sitting room, the Count habitually glanced at the northwest corner with its privileged view of the Bolshoiand there, framed by the window, was the silhouette of a man gazing out into the night.†  (source)
  • But even though I felt her presence, I also felt the habitual fruitlessness of thinking about her.†  (source)
  • April rain falls slantwise through the billboard's spotlights and Volkheimer's television flickers blue and he ducks habitually as he passes through the doorway between his kitchen and the main room.†  (source)
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