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Example sentences for "always used"

  • During recreation I always used to see her alone on a bench.

  • Eugène would get up to go in when the voice stopped singing, but I always used to stop, hoping to hear it again.

  • Whenever the farmer had any difficulties with his men he always used to call his brother, who would settle everything with a few words.

  • He often passed close to the playground where we were playing, and he always used to bow very low to Sister Marie-Aimée.

  • There is a deep reason for the fact that, wherever the posterity [Pg 54] of the Patriarchs are spoken of as the instruments of blessing, the singular is always used.

  • The expression, "the end of the days," is always used of that only which lies at the end of the course which is seen by the speaker.

  • It is always used in this sense in the Old and New Testaments.

  • These articles of clothing he always used to put on as he ran down the stairs.

  • During my whole childhood you stood behind everything, protecting me; if anything happened to me I always used to think; 'Father Lasse will soon set that right!

  • Then, too, this cheery fellow always sang when he was washing, and that was what Miss Mathilda always used to do.

  • Silly, romantic Miss Crawley, far from being horrified at the courage of her favourite, always used to pay his debts after his duels; and would not listen to a word that was whispered against his morality.

  • He always used to say 'twas his nose bleedn, till he must have pomped all the blood out of 'um.

  • He has the devil's luck as well as his own, but I always used to tell him it would fail him yet.

  • As for father he always used to keep a horse or two, trained to go home when he'd done with him.

  • She seemed to think so little about it that Jim and I always used to say she'd be an old maid, and never marry at all.

  • I always used to think, somehow, nobody ever seemed to be able to get into a pelter with Jim, not even father, and that was a thing as some people couldn't be got to believe.

  • Below you will find the letter that he wrote in return, written in violet ink that he always used (dreadfully ugly, I used to think it).

  • He always used to tell me that when I grew up and became married he would give me the two little rooms, so that if I ever disagreed with my husband we could each of us retire to a turret till we had made up our quarrel!

  • Of you' is here simply a translation of the Irish diot, which is always used in this connexion in Irish: bainfead diot e, 'I will take it of you.

  • Commanding is always used in a good sense; as, a commanding appearance; a commanding eminence.

  • The word effeminate is always used reproachfully, and only of men as possessing womanly traits such as are inconsistent with true manliness.

  • Salubrious is always used in the physical sense, and is chiefly applied to air or climate.

  • He has no shame left in him, although he always used to be so honorable in his way of life.

  • He never used to complain; he always used to find some happiness in the most unpleasant things.

  • He continued clumsily to conceal his love beneath formulæ of ceremonious politeness, which he always used in an absurd fashion.

  • II My grandfather was one of these boys; in fact, he always used to say he was the ringleader, but that may have been another form of his penance.

  • Lem had a foolish, apologetic grin with which he always used to respond to these personalities, hanging his head to one side and opening and shutting his big hands nervously.

  • However, so as not to leave behind me the impression that I was trying to shirk my obligations to the public, I always used to arrange with somebody to appear on the stage as the winner, and claim and receive the £5.

  • He always used to rave about London cured fish, and told me one day in great confidence that he had found a shop down the New Cut where a pal of his smoked haddocks in real oak sawdust.

  • For my part I always used to answer the questions in the affirmative, no matter where I might be, but my own private opinion is that Los Angeles is far and away the most beautiful of American cities.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "always used" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always accompanied; always been; always best; always called; always felt; always followed; always found; always had; always kept; always more; always right; always seems; always something; always the; always well; earthquake shocks; equal numbers; for instance; gold leaf; her dressing; make fast; parliamentary democracy; she could; started again; stood upon; thou desire