Sentence examples for were habits from inspiring English sources

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were habits

noun

An action done on a regular basis.

  • It’s become a habit of mine to have a cup of coffee after dinner.

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Lessons learned in the war zone – detachment, vigilance, control, anger – were habits not compatible with "home".

There were habits, and capes, and calf-length black wool dresses belted with a long gold rope.

These were habits that Houston — having been shaped by traditional gospel and its conservative nature, and by her cousin Dionne Warwick's elegantly restrained performance style — largely eschewed.

Decades ago, there were habits and customs that boys and girls would take up as they became young men and women.

Euphemism and sublimation were habits of the English aesthetes more than of the French ones the Gallic taste is for abstraction and ellipsis instead and this lends a particular poetic tone to Moncrieff's translation.

This was why he had been squirreling away the food, and this was why he had been saving the milk; these were habits he had cultivated from being homeless for so long.

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