Sentence examples for wonted from inspiring English sources

The word 'wonted' is correct and typically used in formal or literary contexts.
It is an adjective that means customary or usual. Example: The queen invited her wonted guests to her annual ball at the palace.

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wonted

adjective

Usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.

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I must be wonted to it — that's the reason.

Other words and phrases identified as commonly occurring in Marlowe works include "familiar spirit, cull out, regions under earth, oh hold me, to your wonted, see, forsake me, droopeth to, curse, miscreant, ugly, change, shape thou, change my shape, suddenly surprise, your dainty, fell and enchantress".

I must be wonted to it that's the reason.

She's the high point of a cast that's loud if not consistently strong: Wendy White and Francisco Casanova deliver respectably as the pair of star-crossed lovers; Samuel Ramey shows his wonted poise and wonted wobble as Zaccaria, and Frederick Burchinal is rather approximate about his pitches as Nabucco.

After a stirring assault on the French, whose stylishness Mr Clegg compared favourably to our own, Trevor touched with wonted lightness on the latter's foreign blood and questionable loyalty to his country of birth.

The signal drama in new art lately involves a struggle not for esteem and influence — the wonted dreams of artists — but for commercial viability.

Quite apart from a reasonable wariness of paint loss, sheer loyalty to the wonted look of a work, dirt and all, prejudices many.

The uneven textures and faded iridescence of Freer's collection yield a modulation of tones that makes up for the wonted éclat of the glossy blues and whites.

Up surprising notches from their wonted heights, for me, are Corot, Courbet, and, of all perennial beauty-contest winners, Monet.

"At no stage of life do we want more to be of service than when we are deprived of our most wonted opportunities to do so".

We are inclined to believe that the police will win their raise, after which they will avert their eyes once more and L. I. motorists will resume their wonted pursuit of injury and death.

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