Sentence examples for familiar habit from inspiring English sources

Such is his now familiar habit of acting like a sore loser even when he's won.

But, in the familiar habit of misogyny, this children's story gives us a heroine who, for want of detail, is nothing more than a receptacle for male desire.

They overwhelmed a hot goalie and they did not succumb to their familiar habit of letting down after building a comfortable lead.

Senior civil-service jobs were advertised online in a bid to boost transparency but, because of a lack of suitable applicants, the government fell back on the familiar habit of appointing party loyalists.

Here's what I'd guess is a familiar habit: You pop open Instagram, scroll through an endless feed of memes, then resurface an hour later feeling guilty about your utter lack of productivity.

With a chuckle, Victor Rosario, 60, who was heading toward Manhattan, joked, "I guess that's why the fares are going up, huh?" Marilyn Morel, 31, a Borough Park resident who went back and forth between looking down the tunnel and at the video screen, described the former activity as a familiar habit.

"Advertising counterbalances the tendency of people to adhere to familiar habits," he claims.

To expose familiar habits as fusty fabrications is to expose oneself to ridicule, as a weirdo, and to persecution, as a threat to the established order.

And so, in a week that had been anything but routine, there appeared to be comfort in the familiar habits of a game day.

It's structurally brilliant, but he falls into his familiar habits of shouting a lot and trying to say the most offensive thing in the room.

In the moments following a disaster, the landscape transforms: the known becomes suddenly menacing, and people's familiar habits glow with unfamiliar significance.