How To Use Unaccustomed to In A Sentence
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The army's Quartermaster Corps, unaccustomed to providing for the needs of a wartime force, had disbursed flimsy, floorless tents; as a result, Grant and the rest of the four - thousand - man force slept in the cold mud, protected from the elements by thin woolen blankets.
'The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848'
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But, being unaccustomed to existence as a dragon, by the time the lambent flame burst from his cavernous mouth, Natieasdo had disappeared, taking Lationae with him.
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unaccustomed to wearing suits
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The weather presented a particular challenge, especially for American servicemen unaccustomed to subarctic conditions.
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Tim wound steadfastly, back hunched over the reel, unaccustomed to the strange combination of muscles and effort.
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One unaccustomed to the use of bonga and chewing it for the first time, usually experiences a most disagreeable combination of symptoms; constriction of the oesophagus, a sensation of heat in the head and face, the latter becoming red and congested; at the same time dizziness and precordial distress are experienced.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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Since men from feudalistic societies tended to be unaccustomed to using their own initiative and there were political objections to giving them too much liberty, the success of these experiments varied considerably.
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However, many people who are unaccustomed to green tea find its vegetal flavor difficult to drink.
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He is a boisterous, garrulous man eager to debate issues but clearly unaccustomed to being challenged by a woman.
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Charlie, who was unaccustomed to medical facilities of any kind, wrinkled her nose at the antiseptic appearance of the room.
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The Pistons clearly are a shaken team unaccustomed to taking two sound beatings in a series.
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He fidgets in his chair like a man unaccustomed to sitting still, crossing and uncrossing his legs, slipping his socked feet underneath him.
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Her lips on this part of me unaccustomed to affectionate contact were strong with devotion, with the powerful will to console.
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
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It is a part of Britain as yet largely unaccustomed to tourists.
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It wasn't as if Martinez was unaccustomed to physical labor: She grew up in Fresno, the eleventh of twenty-two children of farmworker parents.
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Her lips on this part of me unaccustomed to affectionate contact were strong with devotion, with the powerful will to console.
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
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They had grown unaccustomed to using their power of collective action.
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conservative people unaccustomed to informal dress
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As I started using the pen, I realized that I am very unaccustomed to using a pen on a tablet away from the actual computer screen.
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And since people are still unaccustomed to the feel of the new paper, they won't notice if your fakes aren't a perfect tactile match.
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Their blunt way of describing some of the ills of society might alienate some people, especially those unaccustomed to sarcasm or sardonic humour.
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People who are unaccustomed to praying aloud feel more comfortable trying it with just two or three others.
Christianity Today
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Men unaccustomed to reason and researches, think every enterprise impracticable, which is extended beyond common effects, or comprises many intermediate operations.
The Rambler, sections 171-208 (1751-1752); The Adventurer, sections 34-108 (1753); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume IV
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There were other schoolchildren present, not all of whom hailed from a socioeconomically depressed redneck town and therefore included students of color, with whom my class is unaccustomed to interact.
"I Went to Rejectionist World and It Was Not A Democracy"; Or, Some Thoughts on Our Deep Thoughts
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It's surprising how many people are unaccustomed to hairiness.
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It's a strange experience because they are unaccustomed to being cared for and fussed over.
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The pictures are pleasing as form and color alone, but without titles the allegories are too difficult for people unaccustomed to interpreting this kind of art.
The Jewel City
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Rats, stoats, ferrets, cats, and possums have decimated native animals that were unaccustomed to mammalian predators.
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And since people are still unaccustomed to the feel of the new paper, they won't notice if your fakes aren't a perfect tactile match.
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This is simply because they have the edge over opponents who are relatively unaccustomed to switching sides.
Times, Sunday Times
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Montrealers, unaccustomed to the newspaper boxes' presence, took to them like apes to a monolith.
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The word 'carp' could never have multiplied itself into the absurdities of endo-carps and epi-carps, but in the mouths of men who scarcely ever read it in its original letters, and therefore never recognized it as meaning precisely the same thing as 'fructus,' which word, being a little more familiar with, they would have scarcely abused to the same extent; they would not have called a walnut shell an intra-fruct--or a grape skin an extra-fruct; but again, because, though they are accustomed to the English 'fructify,' 'frugivorous' -- and 'usufruct,' they are unaccustomed to the Latin 'fruor,' and unconscious therefore that the derivative 'fructus' must always, in right use, mean an enjoyed thing, they generalize every mature vegetable product under the term.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
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One can easily imagine how this apparent butchery of corpses might be misinterpreted by a stranger unaccustomed to such a practice.
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This is simply because they have the edge over opponents who are relatively unaccustomed to switching sides.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rachel Stanley's Velma Kelly is a whip-thin Annie Lennox-type, and she tried hard to warm up an audience unaccustomed to musical theatre.
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Unaccustomed to such efficient and personal service I placed my order at once, sat back and waited.
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Meanwhile, several foreign crew members who were unaccustomed to the punishing heat and humidity turned into sluggish grouches.
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Unaccustomed to public criticism, journalists often develop a sense of infallibility that leads them to dismiss their online critics as fools or amateurs.
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This, according to the historian Kerby Miller, was due to the fact that the early Irish immigrants were simply “unaccustomed to work practices in their adopted country.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Old portraits and any kind of inartistic picture or print were brought forth to gratify the eye unaccustomed to such monotony.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,
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The point is that people grew unaccustomed to thinking and acting in a responsible and independent way. Herein lies another big problem.
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It was the type of errand Christine was unaccustomed to perform and plainly foreign to her recognized duties; but it was difficult to be unobliging and refuse, so she took the letters and the list and departed.
Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
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He was unaccustomed to hard work.
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They were unaccustomed to such military setbacks.
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They were unaccustomed to such military setbacks.
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If it's good enough for Her Majesty the Queen, it's good enough for those unaccustomed to smelling fresh paint wherever they go.
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It may be added that, as being himself a blunt and downright Englishman, unaccustomed to conceal the slightest movement either of love or of dislike, he accounted the fair-spoken courtesy which the Scots had learned, either from imitation of their frequent allies, the
The Talisman
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The weather presented a particular challenge, especially for American servicemen unaccustomed to subarctic conditions.
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Every sign here looks like this is someone who was unaccustomed to and overwhelmed by the media spotlight this was generating and took his own life.
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Rafael is a boisterous, garrulous man eager to debate issues but clearly unaccustomed to being challenged by a woman.
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He was unaccustomed to hard work.
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It's surprising how many people are unaccustomed to hairiness.
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What with making light shelters against sun and rain, in Malay called atap, usually erected for long journeys, the placing of split bamboo sticks in the bottom of my prahu, and with the Penihings evidently unaccustomed to such work, it was eight o'clock before the start was made.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917
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Veteran London commuters were astonished that taxi drivers, unaccustomed to clear runs through the streets, had stopped complaining.
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He fidgets in his chair like a man unaccustomed to sitting still, crossing and uncrossing his legs, slipping his socked feet underneath him.
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The weather presented a particular challenge, especially for American servicemen unaccustomed to subarctic conditions.
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In this semi-unconscious state of chloralism it is not unusual for circumstantial and _bizarre_ visions to present themselves -- more especially to individuals unaccustomed to the use of the drug.
Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories
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Rats, stoats, ferrets, cats, and possums have decimated native animals that were unaccustomed to mammalian predators.
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People who are unaccustomed to praying aloud feel more comfortable trying it with just two or three others.
Christianity Today
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Where you have a people utterly unaccustomed to this kind of warfare -- warfare from the skies with all the unimaginable horrors of the unknown -- it requires more than courage to display the spirit which quite ordinary people in Britain have displayed.
The Secret of the Spirit of Britain
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Certain effects — an agreeable warmth, a delicate stillness, an echoless silence — gave our voices unaccustomed tone; at least, the listener fancied so.
Last Leaves from Dunk Island
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Many had, during marriage, distinct conjugal roles and were therefore quite unaccustomed to undertaking partners' household tasks.
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For those unaccustomed to the concept, a roundabout is an intersection with a circle in the middle that drivers go around and then continue on the route of their choice.
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Unaccustomed to the urban environment, horses can be "spooked" easily, by anything from another horse to a plastic shopping bag to a pedestrian, and cause accidents that inflict great damage on vehicles, drivers and most often, the horses themselves.
Laura Eldridge: The Harsh Reality for New York Carriage Horses
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The startled crew around us, unaccustomed to hearing a sociopolitical argument in the disco at 1 A.M., looked on with mouths agape.
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‘His Eternity!’ exclaimed Chrysostom, on whom, unaccustomed to the fulsomeness of Byzantine Courts, the title jarred like a blasphemy.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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Being, however, quite unaccustomed to dealing with this dual condition of mind it is to be feared he was a little "distrait" and mechanical of speech.
Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker
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This is a modern, unsegregated south that we are unaccustomed to seeing.
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She opened it to see Vasic on her stoop, bareheaded in the rain, water streaming off his hair and beard, breath coming in pants as if he'd run from the car and was unaccustomed to the exertion.
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They were genuine country girls, unaccustomed to many eyes.
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This recipe is so easy that even an inexperienced man unaccustomed to baking can whip up this yummy cheesecake.
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There is a mutual understanding of army language, clothing, signs and symbols that the civilian population at large would be unaccustomed to.
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Many had, during marriage, distinct conjugal roles and were therefore quite unaccustomed to undertaking partners' household tasks.
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Now that he's in charge, he's forcing a can-do attitude on a bureaucracy that's unaccustomed to a leader who actually expects results.
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I'm not saying I'm unaccustomed to luxury, but I did get quite excited to find I had an executive trouser press in my room.
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CNN Jonathan Freed in Melvern, Kansas, met people unaccustomed to the publicity and this level of heartbreak.
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Air-conditioning is a must for the American tourist who is unaccustomed to the possible one hundred degree heat.
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Unemployed or still at school, often unaccustomed to budget discipline, young people now have unprecedented opportunities to outspend their means.
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I am unaccustomed to being told what to do.
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He then gave up the ghost, leaving the immense remains for the grieving servants who carried away cartload after cartload of parts, and some even sank beneath their grief, or the weight borne on their backs, unaccustomed to so heavily precious cargo.
Best Left Unsaid: intro and ch.01
