“I doubt not that a few weeks' residence will accustom me to the manners of the natives.”

“Sometimes, to accustom her to the idea of education, Nyanka would bring her to sit in the schoolroom during one of Yelena's lessons.”

“Having tried, in vain, every gentle means to tame him and to accustom him to the life of domestic animals, I was often forced to correct him with the whip.”

“Rather something arouses us and accustoms our appetites and our desires to that which expands our longing.”

“This gives the pupils a sense of responsibility and accustoms them to working together.”

“Thus one spares them tears and accustoms them to shed them only when pain forces them to do so.”

“By accustoming us to anti-constitutional proceedings, the administration gains a tacit approval for its new instruments of control.”

“There's also plenty to be said for accustoming children to relaxing their bodies and succumbing to sleep, rather than fighting it.”

“Afterward, it occurred to me that this was how people in towns like Glouster were accustoming themselves to the thought of a black President.”