Sentence examples for lost habits from inspiring English sources

Some of these manners-minders acknowledge that they can sound like curmudgeons, just another generation of older folks mourning the lost habits of more refined times.

The Knicks, of course, have overstuffed their roster with presumed stars, players with gaudy statistics and losing habits whose talents never mesh.

That's a marginal improvement but Rome wasn't built in a day and we're nipping the losing habits in the bud".

New poker players frequently jump into a game and go with their gut, which is largely based on past hands won through luck and quickly create bad, money- losing, habits.

The thing is we've got out of the losing habit.

The Imps had to match Barnet's result against Port Vale to avoid relegation but they just could not kick the losing habit.

"It's easy to get in the losing habit.

For England to break the losing habit, Thorpe says they need to be mentally strong in Sydney.

"They've always had the talent, but when you fall into a losing habit you're then scratching your head wondering where the next win is coming from".

When I left government [in 1997], I lost the habits of government very quickly, and I understood the difference between government and opposition, which a lot of my colleagues didn't for a while, and similarly when I ceased to be an MP, I lost the habits of an MP.

Roos said the losing habits were hard to shake.