Sentence examples for rather accustomed from inspiring English sources

Then, in a manner he has become rather accustomed to in the context of USA Ryder Cup captains, the 46-year-old decided to take public aim.

He now found him "rather ... accustomed to the company of princes and statesmen, more interested in the pursuit of prestige and power than the abstractions of the human soul".

In recent practices and the pregame skate, Ovechkin played the slot during power-play drills rather than his accustomed position at the point.

Apart from a brief period when prices were artificially high, peasants much preferred growing the accustomed indigenous cotton rather than the new exotic variety.

One year after November 2008, will voters again rise to the occasion or remain on the sidelines with an 'Obama hangover'?" A society accustomed to sitting on the couch and being passively entertained is one more accustomed to being governed rather than to governing.

The forum for all this attention is not the usual banking and financial services committees, but rather the Senate Agriculture Committee, a group more accustomed to dealing with farm subsidies and national forest boundaries than with the more obscure corners of Wall Street.

Weaving through a crowd of defenders more accustomed to protecting kickers rather than chasing down kick returners, the fleet-footed wide receiver ran along the home sideline and cruised the length of the field for the stunning game-winning score.

Let's hope they do that, rather than what we've become so accustomed to seeing them do.

These days the former Swansea and Gillingham man is more accustomed to flak for his size, rather than the colour of his skin, and, to a certain point, welcomes the attention.

His move was a stark role reversal in a nation more accustomed to sending factory jobs to China, rather than recruiting them to move the other way.

She also dispenses sturdy advice: "It's ever so tiring to be suddenly in charge of a story when you have become quite accustomed to the story happening to you, rather than you happening to it".