Wondering how to use Accustom in a sentence? Below are 7 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as habituate or change.
Accustom meaning
- To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure.
- To be wont.
- To cohabit.
Using Accustom
- The main meaning on this page is: To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure. | To be wont. | To cohabit.
- Useful related words include: habituate, change, alter, modify.
- In the example corpus, accustom often appears in combinations such as: to accustom, accustom them, accustom to.
Context around Accustom
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Accustom
- In this selection, "accustom" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, themselves stand out and add context to how "accustom" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include allergens to accustom the body and apprenticeship to accustom them to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "accustom" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with accustom
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
After abolition, all former slaves had to serve a four-year "apprenticeship," to accustom them to the idea of freedom. (20 words)
Having been blind most of their lives, both of them are already accustom to using sound localization within their daily lives. (21 words)
Allergy immunotherapy (AIT) treatment involves administering doses of allergens to accustom the body to pollen, thereby inducing specific long-term tolerance. (21 words)
It was installed by US ambassador, Joe Kennedy, in 1938 and was intended to inspire his children — including a young JFK, who visited his father here in the late 1930s — to achieve power and accustom them to its trappings. (39 words)
Marathon officials stated before the decision was made to cancel, many options were explored to continue however it would have been impossible to produce the race experience at the same level runners had been accustom to. (36 words)
The paternal home is better for the education of women; they have less need to learn to deal with the interests of others, than to accustom themselves to a calm and secluded life. (33 words)
Example sentences (7)
It was installed by US ambassador, Joe Kennedy, in 1938 and was intended to inspire his children — including a young JFK, who visited his father here in the late 1930s — to achieve power and accustom them to its trappings.
Marathon officials stated before the decision was made to cancel, many options were explored to continue however it would have been impossible to produce the race experience at the same level runners had been accustom to.
All I am seeing is that the government can’t get to go with this money how they are accustom of doing because of the requirements.
Having been blind most of their lives, both of them are already accustom to using sound localization within their daily lives.
After abolition, all former slaves had to serve a four-year "apprenticeship," to accustom them to the idea of freedom.
Allergy immunotherapy (AIT) treatment involves administering doses of allergens to accustom the body to pollen, thereby inducing specific long-term tolerance.
The paternal home is better for the education of women; they have less need to learn to deal with the interests of others, than to accustom themselves to a calm and secluded life.
Common combinations with accustom
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to accustom 3×
- accustom them 2×
- accustom to 2×