accustom

Trent, the former customer the Roosevelt Bartell, ended up at the Rite Aid in Wedgwood, where she said she’s had to accustom herself to long waits.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

You can accustom yourself to believing things without support or believing things without empirical validation or believing by simply brushing aside questions.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2021

So there are technical aspects that Kalbfleisch has to accustom her to.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2017

The problem is banks and companies who grown accustom to low cost money.

From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2016

“You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.”

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Chief among these techniques is "systematic desensitization," the process a mother uses when she accustoms a baby to the ocean by dipping in one foot first, then a leg, then the infant's whole body.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though it is repetitious and - I am afraid to say - increasingly annoying to listen to, this technique soon accustoms our ears to expect equal weight in a tune’s two halves.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

This accustoms the mind to sound exertion, and not to fits of attention.

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter

Life in these forests accustoms the eyes to see in darkness.

From With Cochrane the Dauntless by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

Two players accustomed to being double- or triple-teamed — two players with a combined 236½ sacks — are eager for opportunities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

The neighbors got used to receiving this help, while you and your husband became accustomed to giving.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

A decade ago when managing emergency departments, Dustin Bass said he was accustomed to tapping his most tenured nurses to run triage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

It’s that we’ve become so accustomed to conducting ordinary life through our phones that we rarely stop to consider whether they’re necessary to the transaction in the first place.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

The rest of the crew was made up of able seamen accustomed to the harsh weather of the North Sea, two doctors, a handful of university scientists, officers, a carpenter, and a cook.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Writer-director Adam Meeks has set out to make a drama-documentary hybrid, and this is his simple opening gambit, accustoming us to seeing the characters he has created enmeshed in a world inhabited by real people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Bacon said he and the fellow star had no qualms accustoming to their new routine while quarantining amid the coronavirus pandemic.

From Fox News ● Jan. 10, 2022

“These reviews also had a good effect in accustoming the troops to see me, although they saw so much of me in their camps and on the picket-lines that this was of minor importance.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2017

The old falconers called the process of accustoming a hawk to a human “watching.”

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2015

Can one instruct without accustoming young minds to work, to obedience, to correct habits of thought; without putting into their hands good books; without giving them good examples?

From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet