We found 19 examples of how to use wont to in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 19 of 19.
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| 1. | We were wont to meet at that pleasant spot. | |
| 2. | It was my father's wont to read the newspaper before breakfast. | |
| 3. | Again, the toddler says, "no, I won't" as he is wont to do. | |
| 4. | I'm wont to take a shower in the morning. | |
| 5. | My favorite dissenters--I mean those whose ideas ill accorded with my own--were wont to express themselves with exquisite courtesy. | |
| 6. | When they returned from fishing, or from wherever they had been, they were wont to sing a hymn. | |
| 7. | Robin whistled as he trudged along, thinking of Maid Marian and her bright eyes, for at such times a youth's thoughts are wont to turn pleasantly upon the lass that he loves the best. | |
| 8. | Wine is wont to show the mind of man. | |
| 9. | Daphnis — when all was quiet — came down to the plain where the flocks were wont to pasture, but not a goat nor a sheep was to be seen, nor was Chloe herself there. | |
| 10. | From that time forward he kissed her openly, as if she were already his wife, and not by stealth as he had been wont to do, and he assisted her in all her work, milking her ewes for her, setting her cheese on the racks, and placing her lambs under their dams, as he did with his own kids. | |
| 11. | An impressive silence broods over the monstrous structure where such multitudes of men and women were wont to assemble in other days. | |
| 12. | And when he had made the camels lie down without the town, near a well of water, in the evening, at the time when women are wont to come out to draw water, he said: O Lord, the God of my master, Abraham, meet me today, I beseech thee, and shew kindness to my master, Abraham. | |
| 13. | Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three branches are yet three days, after which Pharaoh will remember thy service, and will restore thee to thy former place: and thou shalt present him the cup according to thy office, as before thou was wont to do. | |
| 14. | And when they were now departed out of the city, and had gone forward a little way: Joseph sending for the steward of his house, said: Arise, and pursue after the men: and when thou hast overtaken them, say to them: Why have you returned evil for good? The cup which you have stolen, is that in which my lord drinketh, and in which he is wont to divine: you have done a very evil thing. | |
| 15. | And the overseers of the works pressed them, saying: Fulfil your work every day, as before ye were wont to do, when straw was given you. | |
| 16. | But the sixth day let them provide for to bring in: and let it be double to that they were wont to gather every day. | |
| 17. | If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out. | |
| 18. | But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday, and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. | |
| 19. | But if he knew that his ox was wont to push yesterday, and the day before, and his master did not keep him in; he shall pay ox for ox, and shall take the whole carcass. |