WONT in a Sentence
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53 example sentences for WONT, such as:
1. He was wont to rise early.
2. Are wont to outwear the night with.
3. Was wont to steal the hermit's hymn.
4. Old use and wont legs about the fire.
5. She arrived an hour late, as is her wont.
2. Are wont to outwear the night with.
3. Was wont to steal the hermit's hymn.
4. Old use and wont legs about the fire.
5. She arrived an hour late, as is her wont.
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Meanings and Examples of WONT
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wont
n. an established custom
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1 The older, quieter cities were wont to look upon the bustling new town with the sensations of a hen which has hatched a duckling.
2 For a moment the expression Mammy was wont to describe to herself as "bullheaded" flitted over her young mistress' face and then it passed into a smile, so difficult for Mammy to resist.
3 Once the old doctor had been wont to thank God reverently for each child he brought into the world.
4 Dear sor, as you haf bin treading mee for a fue Weaks dis Somer and seen wat is rong wit mee so in Regarding to dat i wont to tank you.
5 It was not a great while after the affair of the pipe, that one morning shortly after breakfast, Ahab, as was his wont, ascended the cabin-gangway to the deck.
6 For of these moonlight nights, it was his wont to mount to the main-mast head, and stand a look-out there, with the same precision as if it had been day.
7 He went into one of the saloons he had been wont to frequent and bought a drink, and then stood by the fire shivering and waiting to be ordered out.
8 There she lay, robed in one of the simple white dresses she had been wont to wear when living; the rose-colored light through the curtains cast over the icy coldness of death a warm glow.
9 This hall, in which he was now left alone, was a pet fancy of his friend the doctor's; and Utterson himself was wont to speak of it as the pleasantest room in London.
10 To my thinking now," said the Jester, who was frequently wont to act as peace-maker in the family, "our master did not propose to hurt Fangs, but only to affright him.
11 Was wont to steal the hermit's hymn.
12 I am not wont to be baffled in my enterprises, nor needs a Norman noble scrupulously to vindicate his conduct to the Saxon maiden whom he distinguishes by the offer of his hand.
13 One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.
14 Are wont to outwear the night with.
15 She was willing to allow he might have more good qualities than she had been wont to suppose.
Example Sentence:
1 Old use and wont legs about the fire.
2 She arrived an hour late, as is her wont.
3 He was wont to rise early.
4 Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.