Sentence examples for accustomed himself to from inspiring English sources

Asked how he had accustomed himself to this kind of oversight by his wife's parents, he sighed.

From 1933 to 1935 the composer gradually accustomed himself to the new conditions and became one of the leading figures of Soviet culture.

Mr. Sinatra had accustomed himself to the sometimes grim death business while living above his father's funeral home and helping with burials.

There he tried his hand as commercial traveler and teacher but could not accustom himself to civilian life.

It was so poignant when that one boy talked about trying to accustom himself to a real-life sexual experience after watching porn.

The former Arsenal left-back is desperate to face his former club but has had to accustom himself to Mancini's rotation policy.

Like all the boys, he accustoms himself to painful beatings by the school's director, an ugly man with a purple nose known as Beak.

By James Thurber The New Yorker, October 12, 1929 P. 23 A wife should not move furniture, or do anything to give a man that "boxed-up" feeling which occurs when a husband cannot accustom himself to a household.

At the end of his second year, while he was trying to accustom himself to the idea that his mother would soon die, Beard overheard someone in a pub refer to a student at Lady Margaret Hall named Maisie Farmer as a "dirty girl".

He figured it would be a way to accustom himself to appearing before audiences.

Part one is on the moral virtues, for as Falaquera explains, "Whoever wishes to engage in the study of science and to apprehend its truth must begin to accustom himself to the moral virtues" (10).