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Definition
to be or to become psychologically or physically used to something
(used to is an expression that means someone has adapted to and has an expectation of something so it does not seem unusual)
(used to is an expression that means someone has adapted to and has an expectation of something so it does not seem unusual)
- Melly blushed, unaccustomed to such frankness, and signaled Peter to bring in the sweet potato pie.2.10 (56% in)
- It all seemed wild and untamed to her coastbred eyes accustomed to the quiet jungle beauty of the sea islands draped in their gray moss and tangled green, the white stretches of beach hot beneath a semitropic sun, the long flat vistas of sandy land studded with palmetto and palm.1.3 (74% in)
- These people, drawn from many different places and with many different backgrounds, gave the whole life of the County an informality that was new to Ellen, an informality to which she never quite accustomed herself.1.3 (77% in)
- The heavy mahogany table and sideboards, the massive silver, the bright rag rugs on the shining floor were all in their accustomed places, just as if nothing had happened.1.4 (24% in)
- Gerald knelt beside her, and Scarlett and Suellen took their accustomed places on the opposite side of the table, folding their voluminous petticoats in pads under their knees, so they would ache less from contact with the hard floor.1.4 (57% in)
- Evidently he had overheard the whole conversation, for he grinned up at her as maliciously as a tomcat, and again his eyes went over her, in a gaze totally devoid of the deference she was accustomed to.1.6 (17% in)
- Scarlett, accustomed to wide vistas of rolling red hills, felt that she was in prison.1.7 (86% in)
- Accustomed to the brisk voices of upland Georgia, the drawling flat voices of the low country seemed affected to her.1.7 (90% in)
- When first she looked at the crowd, Scarlett's heart had thumpthumped with the unaccustomed excitement of being at a party, but as she half-comprehendingly saw the high-hearted look on the faces about her, her joy began to evaporate.2.9 (33% in)
- There had been fighting in Tennessee for three years and people were accustomed to the thought of that state as a far-away battle field, almost as far away as Virginia or the Mississippi River.3.17 (4% in)
- Muscles she did not know she possessed ached from her unaccustomed exertions of the night before and every movement brought sharp pain.3.24 (8% in)
- For all their dirty beards and tatters they were a well-bred crowd, full of pleasant small talk, jokes and compliments and very glad to be spending Christmas Eve in a big house, surrounded by pretty women as they had been accustomed to do in days long past.3.28 (32% in)
- The withered stalks of last year's cotton had to be removed to make way for this year's seeds and the balky horse, unaccustomed to the plow, dragged unwillingly through the fields.3.29 (6% in)
- The Confederate soldier was so accustomed to his verminous state he did not give it a thought and scratched unconcernedly even in the presence of ladies.3.30 (6% in)
- On his wide black face, accustomed dignity strove with delight at seeing old friends, with the result that his brow was furrowed in a frown but his mouth was hanging open like a happy toothless old hound's.3.30 (21% in)
- He was just plain Cracker, a small farmer, half-educated, prone to grammatical errors and ignorant of some of the finer manners the O'Haras were accustomed to in gentlemen.3.30 (82% in)
- But they were, as a class, childlike in mentality, easily led and from long habit accustomed to taking orders.4.37 (67% in)
- Accustomed to the care of their mistresses when they were ill in slave days, they did not know how to nurse themselves or their sick.4.37 (69% in)
- She was silent a moment, trying to accustom herself to the idea of Carreen as a nun.4.39 (38% in)
- He spoke rustily, as one unaccustomed to speaking, the words coming slowly and almost with difficulty.4.42 (25% in)
- Soon Atlanta became accustomed to seeing Scarlett and her bodyguard and, from being accustomed, the ladies grew to envy her her freedom of movement.4.42 (36% in)
- Soon Atlanta became accustomed to seeing Scarlett and her bodyguard and, from being accustomed, the ladies grew to envy her her freedom of movement.4.42 (37% in)
- Shocked at first by his rudeness, the ladies finally became accustomed to him and, as he was so silent, except for intermittent explosions of tobacco juice, they took him as much for granted as the horses he drove and forgot his very existence.4.42 (40% in)
- These negroes sat in the legislature where they spent most of their time eating goobers and easing their unaccustomed feet into and out of new shoes.5.52 (36% in)
There are no more uses of "accustomed" in Gone with the Wind.
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