How To Use As usual In A Sentence
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Despite the threat of war, people went about their work as usual.
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She was wearing a micro-miniskirt (as usual), pulled over what looked like a mostly-lace teddy.
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Rob was late, as usual, with a sports report on an intercounty shinty game.
A Small Death in the Great Glen
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These arrhythmias usually occur early in life during infancy or childhood.
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We decamped to Porters, as usual, and took over half a dozen tables or so to drink the night away.
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My life, as usual, is too busy, too near chaos.
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As usual with Saab, the design of the instruments and controls is almost perfect although the cruise control stalk is partly hidden from view.
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This section of the Umfuli was usually streamlike and picturesque.
Rainbow’s End
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The common employment of the designation carbuncle for a precious stone and also for a boil was usual from ancient times.
Shakespeare and Precious Stones Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to Where the Precious S
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Historians must, as usual, do what they can with the materials which lie to hand rather than bewail the absence of that which is missing.
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Instead of being given a single engined aircraft as was usual, we were allowed to use one of the latest and fastest new twin-engined bombers!
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His son, who was usually quiet and shy, was very talkative that morning.
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Ashlee just shrugged the criticism off as usual, but deep down I know it hurts her.
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He was usually slow to anger but once his wrath was roused he made a dangerous enemy.
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He was usually slow to anger but once his wrath was roused he made a dangerous enemy.
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Dinner was usually fried meat and pasty potatoes thrown on a chipped plate.
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The law required autopsies on donors before removal of organs, delaying the process so that it was usually too late.
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Inevitably, there are concerns about cheating, with the accusing finger as usual pointing at Ferrari.
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Most sleep soundly, albeit not as long as usual.
Successful Fasting -the easy way to cleanse your body of its poisons
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Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
The Younger Set
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As usual I have made all the unvoiced, internal resolutions to start everything with a clearer mind and also as usual my mind staggers to a halt like a trolley rolling over syrup.
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She had decided she must go on as usual, follow her normal routine, and hope and pray.
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What a wonderful place the city had been to leave, as I looked down at it through the free and lucid air, the plane pitching in the thunderstorm which loomed as usual over Kenscoff.
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As I say, regardless of what was contained in the Revised Criminal Code, as usual, the yeas would easily outnumber the nays at the end of the day.
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Ophelia leaps about and barks, indignant at a style of hunting so contrary to her habits; and Sir Ralph, astride the stone railing, is smoking a cigar and, as usual, looking on impassively at other people's pleasure or vexation.
Indiana
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Well, actually, in the City it was usually raining, or hailing, or giant-asteroiding, but that's beside the point.
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As usual, too, the world's best golfer has been second-guessed at every turn.
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The shakeout in the labour market after Christmas usually makes January a bad month for unemployment.
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Maintenance staff ordinarily clean up the litter, and it's back to life as usual.
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You mean with the approach of the season when everyone wants to blow a huge chunk of their cash on useless junk in an irresponsibly frenzied consumeristic orgasm ... and they're finding themselves without credit or as much spare cash as usual ... they're feeling a little extra down about the economy?
CNN Poll: Optimism on economy fading
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As usual The Beatles have a massive presence with some very interesting articles, well worth a browse through all the items just for some of the stories.
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For stubborn makeup stains use nonoily makeup remover, pretreat and launder as usual.
The Royal Guide to Spot and Stain Removal
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As usual, the centerfold of the magazine will be occupied with a large, full-color reproduction of an artwork suitable for display on a classroom wall.
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The major factor in the decision to stay or to leave was usually professional.
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As usual , the lion's share of the budget is for defence.
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Traditional jazz, or trad jazz, was the pop music of the day and any kind of delinquent behaviour was usually reported as the work of ‘jazz fans’.
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In fact, the only laughter he had heard from her was either scornful or sarcastic, and was usually directed at him.
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Everybody expects me to continue on, business as usual.
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My grandmother, as usual, lamented the decline in moral standards in today's society.
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The water was at the time running down the brattice as usual.
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As usual making fun of myself so everyone can laugh and be merry.
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There she was, sitting as usual, and I was so concerned, believing that due to my interference all the eggs had addled—for I thought the hatching time was three weeks.
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The Sabres rarely forechecked aggressively, and Peca's biggest job was usually to shut down the opponent's top center.
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Each player may check, bet, call, or raise as usual, staking the required amount for each card they hold.
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She turned around and smiled at Keith who was, as usual, seated diagonally behind her.
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Legitimation for such delegated enforcement was usually sought through schemes for participation, such as industrial democracy, regional devolution or community action.
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She had started to make breakfast but wasn't looking and got butter everywhere and grabbed the frying pan that was all metal and forgot (as usual) to use a mitten.
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The pool was usually filled with swimmers, spellbound by the cool shower that tamed the summer sun.
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Along with theology and law, medicine was usually one of the basic faculties.
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The first order of business as the date approached was arranging carpools, started as usual by Bob Zimmerman.
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As usual, the hero was facing insuperable odds .
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No, as usual, my ire is reserved for the utterly inhuman nerks who work in marketing.
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As usual, expect me to steal many of Marcia's links, because she's much better at finding them than I am.
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The method he adopted in teaching them was rather that of a University professor than such as usually is used in a pensionnat.
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As usual, Leberecht was immaculately dressed, sporting a carnation in the buttonhole of his pinstripe suit.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Basal cell carcinomas usually arise from sun-exposed areas of the body.
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As usual we'd left it so late that booking was a waste of time, as we found we'd been shuffled into one of the smaller screens, and the few of us in there were left to rattle around in the middle of a dozen-dozen empty seats.
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Then the door opened and it was back to monkey business as usual.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile it is business as usual at Sotheby's London salerooms with two major art sales on November 29 and December 5.
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And so we will let the politicians talk, condemn, and play politics as usual.
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Lise was descending the steps, the look on her face disapproving as usual.
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That same thing was usually pain; pain is where the pincers of angry lobsters meet the hot, flesh-searing ends of a burning communist cigars.
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First I thought hooray no school but the office called to tell everyone class as usual today.
RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
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Everyone else is in mortal peril, so it's business as usual.
Times, Sunday Times
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As usual, the media wrote laudatory profiles about the 30-year-old, black, Southern New Democrat who represented the future of the party.
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While the others were leaping around in Union Jack mini-dresses or leopardskin catsuits, flashing tattoos and tongue studs, she was usually lurking in the background.
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As usual, the conversation turned back to her children.
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As usual, the centerfold of the magazine will be occupied with a large, full-color reproduction of an artwork suitable for display on a classroom wall.
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Well, as usual, it was Eric who inspired me with his words on how he enjoys living in the safe (Cleveland, if I remember correctly).
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As usual Megan began eating her food quickly whereas I just played with it and only ate a little bit.
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The lengths of most of the months are fixed as given in the following table, but any adjustment necessary can be effected either by adding one day to Heshvan, which has usually twenty-nine days, or taking away one day from Kislev, which has usually thirty --
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture
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He had been rather ` off colour ", as he put it, in early December, and had not got into the library as much as usual.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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While those trapped within ponder the reason for the quarantine, work progresses as usual.
REVIEW: Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson
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Maisha and Tiger meet us outside baggage claim, and Maisha is looking terrific as usual.
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As usual, it is the leaves of the elder trees that are leading the way.
Times, Sunday Times
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I dreamed about Bali last night though as usual it was not the real Bali, more some sandy, watery oceanic island with elements of the South of France about it.
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Arguello was usually a slow starter and Ismael was a very good counter puncher.
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As usual with governments, this recognition is late and accompanied by a blizzard of bureaucracy and paperwork.
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With him, Rumsfeld brought a tight group of political appointees who did not inherit the Pentagon in order to pursue business as usual.
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After each prophecy, (and the Tract that follows the fourth, eighth and eleventh) the priest, standing as usual at the Missal on the Epistle side, with the deacon and subdeacon in line behind him, sings “Oremus”; the deacon sings “Flectamus genua”, and all kneel for a moment of silent prayer, then the subdeacon sings “Levate”, and all rise for a collect, as already mentioned for the Mass of the Presanctified.
Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 6.1 - Holy Saturday and the Blessing of the New Fire, Procession, Exultet, Prophecies
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Despite the threat of war, people went about their business as usual.
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He had his natural attractiveness turned off, as usual.
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The toilet was usually an outhouse - sometimes just one for a camp filled with hundreds of men.
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The Indian furniture was usually of ebony, padouk, or rosewood with the floral borders and motifs either inlaid or engraved on ivory veneer.
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As usual, he prepared to bestraddle his English-made Triumph hog by hiking up his pants, but little did he realize that in doing so he had inadvertently switched on the Strapocaster's industrial-strength electromagnet.
Word Magazine - Comments
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Hyde Park, at that time of the day in general, was usually overpopulated with high-and-mighty lords and ladies prancing along its pathways for their ‘morning’ rides.
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Does John Footman, when he asks permission to go and spend the evening with some friends, pass his time in thuggee; waylay and strangle an old gentleman, or two; let himself into your house, with the house-key of course, and appear as usual with the shaving-water when you ring your bell in the morning?
Roundabout Papers
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He seldom went to the ground, and when he did it was usually a fleeting visit.
Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
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We went to Paul's brother's for a BBQ last nite and it was lovely, its nice to have a gossip and relax, Paul as usual decided to drive, think its cause he loves the new car.
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And, as usual, the law is unlikely to catch the professional snoop.
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But water shares bucked the trend and, as usual, were a haven in times of trouble.
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The shakeout in the labour market after Christmas usually makes January a bad month for unemployment.
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As usual, the label delivers strong belts, hats, and tees, but most notably are their new backpacks, buttondowns, jackets, and wallets (pictured above).
CtotheJL
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He looks sexy. But still, he is mannerly as usual.
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While he was thus dangled in a state of suspension, a German trooper was transiently smit with the charms of his mother, who listened to his honourable addresses, and once more received the silken bonds of matrimony; the ceremony having been performed as usual at the drum-head.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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It has usually been represented in ModE by gh, leaving its silent fossils in such words as dough, night, through, thought, thorough.
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Many of the texts he analyzes may be adjudged failures when they try simply to adopt the patterns of the frontier story or negative critiques when they demonstrate the exclusionist nature of the story as it has usually been told.
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She's a cunning little devil! She left for school as usual, and then went into town instead with her friends.
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He notes that the northern grazing industry has usually been economically marginal, rarely very profitable.
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As usual I joined in - what a pair of plonkers we were, lying there giggling on the lawn.
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Meanwhile, his station continued business as usual: paying the bills with simulcasts of U.S. shows.
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I unrolled my sleeping bag as usual.
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Are you coming home at the usual time? Yes, I shall leave the office at the same time as usual.
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When somebody died everything went on as usual, as if it had never happened.
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Her old adulator, also, vanished from public places, while her young admirer and his father hovered about in them as usual, but spiritless, comfortless, and as if in the same search as himself.
Camilla
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She greeted him as usual, showing not the slightest aggression.
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Despite the threat of war, people went about their business as usual.
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One evening the club had met as usual, and Tom had mixed his first tumbler of potheen punch, after "the feast of shells" was over, when somebody happened to mention the name of Edmund Kean, with the remark that he had once played in a barn in that very town.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841
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As usual, the papers predict that tax will dominate the agenda.
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But Mr Brownrigg, who, I must say, had taken more pains than might have been expected of him to make himself acquainted with the legalities of his office, did not fail to call a vestry, to which, as usual, no one had responded; whereupon he imposed a rate according to his own unaided judgment.
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
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Despite the rumpus, it's business as usual with the side to play England still stuffed full of players born and bred outwith these borders and in many cases playing their rugby outside Scotland.
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California has snookered itself, thinking it's defeated politics as usual.
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The normal workings of the rugby world are put on hold in the week before an international, but as soon as something approximating to business as usual resumes tomorrow morning, the inquest which has been brewing all week will begin.
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The servants, powdered and in short breeches as usual, served us in their customary solemnity; but they must have wondered why we preferred to sit on the gravel, with a draught of cold air on our backs, when we might have been comfortably seated in a big and airy room with a carpet under our feet.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
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Being a charismatic church, the proceedings went along as usual.
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Three meals will be served up as usual on weekdays, but on weekends and holidays, all that's going to change.
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Yet he was usually warm-hearted and funny.
Times, Sunday Times
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The few Persian travellers in the caravansarai and the villagers come flocking around as usual to worry me about riding the bicycle, but the servants drive them away in short order.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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I said I would write to you, but as usual I never got around to it.
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The label stated the dose to be "two table-spoonfuls," and bore, as usual, a number corresponding with a number placed on the prescription.
The Fallen Leaves
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The school also taught French but, as was usual at this time, not much science.
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Each point of the ingrowing lines of the _échelon_ has usually one cell further advanced into the corium than its neighbours, and may be termed the _apical cell_.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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As usual, the envy is largely baseless and dumb, but it's sticky and hard to shake.
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Traditionally, older men wore breeches, a cummerbund, a striped shirt, a vest, and even a fez, a hat that was usually red.
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As usual in crustose forms, the thalli are composed of hyphae which are densely disposed toward the upper, exposed surface and more loosely disposed toward the lower surface (Fig. 2).
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
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Today, as usual, he was wearing a three-piece suit.
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He dressed for the occasion, received higher class audiences, held forth on the merits and demerits of the film and was usually an expert on public taste.
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The fishing boat harbour was usually bustling with lots of local colour.
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As usual, she completely monopolized the conversation.
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One other had swelled leg, or phlegmasia dolens, and one or two others did not recover as well as usual.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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For a man who was known to record some of the most fiery roots music this side of the Mississippi, he was usually not featured belting out some rambunctious R & B or scorching rockabilly.
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A source at Mataram airport said flights continued as usual and the last flight departed for Bali with several empty seats.
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I was standing in the supermarket aisle today, and as usual I became aware of the muzak: it wasn't muzak.
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It was usually bolted through a beam, or the ridgepole in some cases.
DOLL'S EYES
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As usual the forecast was wrong and it rained all day but despite this, we had a very good time.
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Animal welfare and secular campaigners have no objection to halal meat as long as the animals have been stunned before killing, as usually happens in Britain.
Times, Sunday Times
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The producer or documentalist can query by text, as usual, and by visual example, using stills or video sequences.
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Of course, this constant barter of cash for influence represents politics as usual.
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She was standing there in a tight pink metallic minidress, smiling and perky as usual.
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A York scrapyard owner has pledged it will be business as usual tomorrow - despite counting the cost of a fire which ripped through more than 300 wrecked cars.
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And barbie, as usual, not bothering to read the script, gittin 'folksy, you betcha, and saying dumb stuff.
McCain says he's no 'maverick'
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The place was usually overflowing with people.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had decided she must go on as usual, follow her normal routine, and hope and pray.
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Inevitably, I'm now pooped, so I'm going to kick back on the sofa and read/doze for a while. Of course, as usual, what I really need is a good massage across my shoulders and back.
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I said I would write to you, but as usual I never got around to it.
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As usual in games of this family, among the numeral cards in cups and coins, lower numbers beat higher numbers.
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Although overall the bowling wasn't as good as usual there were no 4-0 games and everyone appeared to enjoy it.
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As usual, it's overwhelmingly the rich who get the pleasure while the poor put up with lousy services and fares which have rocketed since deregulation.
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As usual I am amazed by your energy, especially all the travelling you do.
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Only the privileged will be able to get munted on aerosols and as usual, the lower classes get left behind.
Fuel Prices Hit Teen Drug Users
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As usual, Easy isn't much of a detective - his inquiries lead to a chain of suspicious characters who finger one another - but he could hardly be improved as a philosopher and aphorist.
Little Scarlet: Summary and book reviews of Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley.
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We have to carry on as usual or it would look suspicious.
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So morning warms to broad noon, and hunger makes it dinner-time, and the young kinsmen who have strolled abroad come home, one of them with his hand bound up in a white rag that has drops of blood on it, for he has picked a quarrel in the street and steel has been out, as usual, though no one has been killed, because the 'bargello' and his men were in sight, down there near the Orsini's theatre-fortress.
Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
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In public bureaucracies, tenure of a post was usually for life.
Politics, Planning and the State
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Prayer was always something of a soporific for her; she prayed at night in bed but was usually asleep long before she said ‘Amen.’
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And interestingly, as usual, it is the Bible based, Evangelistic, GOP, Republican Right who have once again demeaned our President!
Obama delivers controversial school speech
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You may wish to embellish the controls with rubdown lettering followed by a coat of spray-on protective lacquer as usual.
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In an investment career that started with oil back in the 1960s, Anschutz has usually zigged when others zagged.
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Early one morning, Ladyface's mahout came to see him as usual.
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On the day of his death, he returned from work as usual, exercised the dog, and went to sleep in the front bedroom.
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As usual, many protesters against economic globalisation in its present form will be unionists, and ALP members.
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Mild ribbing was all right, hell it was usually very funny, but once again Chris was going to extremes and was being downright nasty.
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So I made some vague, sweeping statements, as usual, and Meg made them into code and pictures and layout.
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The ore was usually found in water less than twelve feet deep and was raised by men in large, flat-bottomed boats wielding drags, rakes, or heavy, powerful tongs similar to oystering tongs.
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The carouse was a tremendous one, as usually was the case where Hollock was the Amphitryon, and, as the potations grew deeper, an intention became evident on the part of some of the company to behave unhandsomely to Norris.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
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Only drawback (as with all things constitutional in this country) is that "your kilometrage may vary" as usual -- bi provincial / territorial jurisdiction, as well as bi the numbers (typically "where numbers warrant" -- which could be interesting), etc.
Congratulations to all my gay friends
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A demob candidate less happy than McLeish would be hard to find, and though smiling, often joking and courteous as usual, there was no denying the sad state of mind which he is currently enduring.
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Nothing, in fact, disturbs the grandeur and solemnity of the Mosaical cosmogony, except (as usual) the ruggedness of the bibliolater.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
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I think she is afraid of dealing with the financial crisis that every state is facing at this time ... she's giving up rather then facing the people ... classy as usual. fay
Palin to step down as governor, not seeking re-election
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The strange tortoise's shell is flat underneath and not rounded at the belly as usual, he says.
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I just opened the drawer as usual and the handle came away in my hand.
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Previously, our research has been conducted in contexts where there was usually a willingness to claim a national identity.
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As usual, the obstructionist GOP puts PARTY first, America and Americans last - taking yet another opportunity to put their "pro-life" anti-abortionist demands out there as blackmail:
Abortion once again roils health care debate
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And maybe talking about bicycles for one minute before going back to business as usual?
Times, Sunday Times
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In the kirks a certain skill in woodcarving was often evident, and in recognition of the Auld Alliance between France and Scotland, a blue fleur-de-lis carpet was usually a feature.
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He was usually able to scrounge up enough from the empty boxes in the trash or put the bite on an unsuspecting transient, “borrowing” a cupful or two from someone who he didn't already “owe” from before.
25 Cents at a Time
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A report by the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts published today – Rebalancing the economy (nesta. org.uk) – suggests that there are four possible courses for the UK: business as usual, a broad-based manufacturing renaissance, a hi-tech growth scenario and a case in which businesses invest heavily in innovation across the economy.
Innovation will get the economy moving
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There will be no ‘business as usual’, since his supporters expect him to deliver on the many promises he has made during the campaign.
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A negative test result was usually an accurate indication that the client did not have the disorder.
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This is not an aberration; it is just business as usual - the business of screwing the poor for fun and profit.
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An editor at the magazine who refused to give his name denied the report Friday, saying Zhao was working as usual, but a reporter who refused to give her name confirmed that Zhao was suspended.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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On reaching the churchyard and turning the corner towards the spot as usual, she was surprised to perceive another woman, also apparently a respectable widow, and with a tiny boy by her side, bending over Clark's turf, and spudding up with the point of her umbrella some ivy-roots that
A Changed Man; and other tales
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Our river is well up now, about twice as wide as usual and it is thundering over the weir.
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She was getting breakfast as usual.
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She was usually silently stubborn but was on occasion prone to emotional outbursts.
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My grandmother, as usual, lamented the decline in moral standards in today's society.
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I just opened the drawer as usual and the handle came away in my hand.
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It will be, as usual, the taxpayer who will be footing the bill.
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I was usually the active partner, or rather it was usually I who initiated a kiss or an embrace.
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School was uneventful as usual; he was relieved when the bus stopped at the bus stop near his house.
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The public's ignorance of the idiocies endemic to the EOIR's business as usual and the calamities these entail is no accident.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Lawless Judges, Immigrant Soldiers, and Deportee Pardons
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If we weigh a stone first in the air, as usual, and then in water (where it weighs less), and then subtract the weight in water from the weight in air we will have the _loss of weight in water_, and this equals the _weight of an equal volume of water_, which is precisely what we got by our bottle method.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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She was usually such an easy-going and forgiving kid; it just wasn't like her to be so stubborn.
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As usual it will feature a dramatic storyline.
Times, Sunday Times
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The former was usually called the galeones (_anglice_ "galleons"), was commanded by a "general," and sailed from Spain earlier in the year, between January and March.
The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
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She came in and up to my chair as usual -- but she did not say her accustomary cold good morning.
Man and Maid
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There was usually a fixed rate of exchange between the two coinages, though this was upset when opium poured in and silver flowed out, causing a scarcity of the latter.
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The station was, as usual, in the middle of nowhere, though I could see the downtown a mile or so away.
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Fresh milk was usually consumed either unskimmed, or added to tea.
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As usual, his hair was in tendrils that hung halfway down his face.
