Sentence examples for were less used to from inspiring English sources

But in the early days of the show, when Colbert's persona was more earnest and deadpan, and when people were less used to it, there were some memorably strange and awkward moments.

Participants from social care described themselves as knowledgeable about PROMs due to their inclusion in annual social care surveys, but were less used to categorising service users by diagnostic labels, as people are usually identified by need rather than diagnosis in social care practice.

But societies are less used to hearing from attorneys general," Brownell said.

But Mexico and Peru are less used to receiving this sort of abuse.

But I'm less used to it, and I've come, over the past four days, to admire how easily it happens here.

St. Paul is less used to the limelight than the shadow, the one cast by Minneapolis, its bigger and more image-conscious neighbor.

He is less used to being struck by one, as he was at a protest last weekend staged by the Association of Victims of Terrorism in Madrid.

But he is less used to taking part in two-hander conversations with artists from other disciplines, albeit an artist who's a long-standing friend and collaborator.

Tom Wyatt, a reputation consultant, suggests that business executives are less used to the scrutiny of the press than more mainstream celebrities: "They look at it from their point of view – 'I need that little holiday'.

Lind is less used to this kind of spring training experience, in which he subs instead of starts, and therefore has to play the second half of spring training games for the first time in a while.

We are less used to hearing about wind as a factor or challenge, but the example of Pantelleria, an Italian island in the Strait of Sicily, offers this perspective.