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How to use wonted in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word wonted? Here are some examples.

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I noticed he was dressed in formality that night, forgoing his wonted loud, showy colors I normally saw him in.
On top of the milieu, in wonted Godspeed fashion, an old man recalls a bizarre and oddly moving story of how a penguin is gobbled up by a killer whale.
Several erudite readers, invoking Joycean fragments, have in recent months suggested ways of rehabilitating my wonted usage, for which I am grateful.
Quite apart from a reasonable wariness of paint loss, sheer loyalty to the wonted look of a work, dirt and all, prejudices many.
She has got to the heart of the matter with her wonted precision and customary acuity.
Worsted in this war of love Shiva punished the mischievous god of love Madana for aiding that maiden by causing springtime to appear on the scene before its wonted time.
The local artists will, as wonted, be given the opportunity to perform on the international stage in an effort to promote both the artistes and the island.
Superficially, the affairs of 'Every Other Week' settled into their wonted form again, and for Fulkerson they seemed thoroughly reinstated.
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.
We fit our language to our audience, restraining our natural bent at times so as not to be too flowery, and at other times garnishing the wonted plainness of our diction to suit an occasion.
What though thy habit differ from thy kinde, Thou maiest retain thy wonted loving minde.
Examples from Classical Literature
Her lips were tightly compressed, and her bosom had recovered its wonted immobility.
But after this brief display of energy the Spartans relapsed into their wonted torpor.
Besides, it was not very substantial, and failed to keep up their wonted strength.
So far as the superstitious emotions they excited are concerned, it may be truly said of queer fish that even in their ashes live the wonted fires.
Janzen was at last emerging from his wonted frigidity and mysteriousness.
Nor were the oarsmen quite idle, though their wonted duty was now altogether dispensed with.
A couple of trips made her wonted and easygoing at the work, and infatuated her with the stir and adventure and independence of steamboat life.
At intervals her wonted courage and resoluteness resumed the ascendancy.
At all events, Hepzibah had fully satisfied herself of the impossibility of ever becoming wonted to this peevishly obstreperous little bell.
There was no tenseness in her body, her arms did not go around him, and her lips met his without their wonted pressure.
A certain charm of settled melancholy seems to inhere in his wonted style.
It was a long time before I could recover my wonted calm and composure.
Of the assembled guests, too, few were in their wonted spirits.
He then took his wonted station, with the air of a man who believed he had done a deed of merit.
Let the crisis be favourable, and resume your wonted energy.
And now she saw her home again with more than wonted delight.
He banged the table with his fist, and poured forth all his wonted abuse.
Still the delay was not wholly unproductive, for it took all that time to get Sandy thoroughly wonted to the new thing, she being so close to it, you know.
But it was a robustness in a finer than the wonted sense, a vigorous daintiness, it might be called, which gave an impression of virility with none of the womanly left out.
Tom remarked, as the light of the moon fell upon Cassy's large, black eyes, that there was a wild and peculiar glare in them, unlike their wonted fixed despair.
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