Sentence examples for used to assuming from inspiring English sources

Torontonians were long used "to assuming that they are the centre of the universe," as Joe Martin, a business historian at the University of Toronto, puts it.

We've grown so used to assuming that technology of this kind should make things crisper, cleaner, and more efficient that it's a pleasure, a relief, even, to find an experience that is all but effortless in actual life instead slowed down and warped, complicated by the digital realm.

And some interesting parallels were drawn between female entrepreneurs and activists in Latin America and the Caribbean: both groups strive in the midst of numerous and difficult obstacles and are used to assuming great amounts of responsibility.

As a female moviegoer, I'm used to assuming that most studio films aren't for me.

I used to assume that my father had been assigned to us by the government.

I used to assume the joke was on Anchorman.

Masks have long been used to assume or shift identities.

Geneticists used to assume that this meant it was useless.

Shannon White used to assume she would become a teenage mother, like her big sister.

"I used to assume that all Christians heard God the way I do," he said.

Some people in Europe used to assume that Eurosceptic groups were all right-wing, he says.