Sentence examples for wont from inspiring English sources

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wont

noun

One's habitual way of doing things, practice, custom.

  • He awoke at the crack of dawn, as was his wont.

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A) "Matty wet and sucre, bees'd be kind to bring joy to your comedy" B) "If matters weren't so grave, I'd be inclined to enjoy your comedy" C) "Mutt here's wont to crave, eyes climbed tinjoy, come Eddy" A) "She came looking for her father.

Will we have a policy that charges polluters for the waste emissions they pump into the air or, as is the wont of the Abbott Government, a policy that asks taxpayers to pay for polluters to cut their emissions?

They also argue (as industry lobbies are wont to do) that regulation would be too costly, especially for smaller funds.Their tactics are not all defensive.

Mr Blair suggested something similar in December and Gordon Brown, chancellor of the exchequer and the prime minister's likely successor, is wont to wax lyrical on the importance of Britishness for all.

As the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner put it, the animal, "in a testosterone-filled moment", attacked the billowing wires, as rutting moose are wont to do.

"BEING rich is bad," Hugo Chávez is wont to remark.

Correction to this articleA HEREDITARY Hindu priest, Veer Bhadra Mishra is wont, shortly after sunrise, to totter down the stone steps of his temple to the Ganges river, and there perform a three-part ritual.

David Cameron, the Conservative Party leader, was wont to bemoan "broken Britain", mired in moral degeneracy, with high rates of teenage pregnancy, low rates of marriage and other less quantifiable breakdowns in the civilised scheme of things.Such antediluvian worries were raked over again on July 13th when Iain Duncan Smith, a former Tory leader, called for an official endorsement of marriage.

Progress, as General David Petraeus, the American commander on the ground, is wont to say, is "fragile and reversible".

It added that "these funds will mainly be used to modernise the army"—an even more terse explanation than China's normally opaque budgets are wont to give on military matters.

Questionable business practices, such as kickbacks for online advertisements, add to the competitive frenzy.The founders of companies that come out ahead in this battle often prefer to enjoy their new wealth rather than become serial entrepreneurs, as successful Silicon Valley folk are wont to do.

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