Sanakirja.org

Esimerkit

• I am used to cleaning up other people’s mess.  I became used to his ways.
• “Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.
• He was shivering a little, for he had always been used to sleeping in a proper bed, and by this time his coat had worn so thin and threadbare from hugging that it was no longer any protection to him.
• I used to be undecided, but now I’m not so sure.
• I used to like that band and I still do.
• I used to know a guy from the UK who pronounced "mother" without the "r".
• It used to be me, sitting in that chair.
• There used to be open fields here. Now it's a shopping mall.
• They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
• He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
• But tell me does she kiss like I used to kiss you? / Does it feel the same, when she calls your name?
• 2002, David I. Grossvogel, Didn't You Used to Be Depardieu?.
• 2003, G. E. Kruckeberg, Things My Daddy Used to Say.
• I am getting used to his way.