Father used to say that if ignorance was bliss the home for feeble-minded folks ought to be a paradise.
My father usedto tell me many little things which he had found useful in his medical practice.
Darwin's Leyden dissertation was published in the 'Philosophical Transactions,' and my father usedto say that the work was in fact due to Erasmus Darwin.
In contrast to him, my father used to cite Punchinello, the children's toy, an object of ridicule.
My father used to divide orators into "artists in words and artists in gesture.
My father used to make her catch biscuits off her nose, and had an affectionate and mock-solemn way of explaining to her before-hand that she must "be a very good girl.
My father used to say that it was the absolute necessity of tidiness in the cramped space on the Beagle that helped "to give him his methodical habits of working.
My father used to say that when the second Sir Henry Strachey came back from India, for he was there only ten years, his father was still in Parliament.
This William Strachey, as my father used to point out to us, had a very considerable amount of book-writing to his credit.
Father used to laugh at the shooting in this country, and say they'd never have poachers here--the game wasn't worth it.
The night wasn't as dark as it might have been, but now and again there was a storm, and the whole sky turned as black as a wolf's throat, as father used to say.
Father used to set snares for the brush kangaroo and the bandicoots, like he'd been used to do for the hares in the old country.
The constantly darkening prospects of that unlucky theater threw a gloom over us all; sometimes my father used to speak of selling his share in it for any thing he could get for it (and Heaven knows it was not likely to be much!
My father used to call her Queen Bess (her name was Elizabeth), declaring that her manners were like those of that royal un-gentlewoman.
My Father used to watch this performance from an upper window, and, in moments of high facetiousness, he was wont to parody the poet Gray: How jocund doth George drive his team afield!
My Father used to warn us very solemnly against 'lip-service', by which he meant singing hymns of experience and joining in ministrations in which our hearts took no vital or personal part.
My Father used to tramp in solitude around and around the red ploughed field which was going to be his lawn, or sheltering himself from the thin Devonian rain, pace up and down the still-naked verandah where blossoming creepers were to be.
When it happened, my father used to take the manuscript in his hand, and ask with some annoyance, "What on earth is the difficulty?
I well remember the time when my father used to put me in the saddle in front of him and we would ride out to bathe in the Voronka.
When we got to the marsh, my father used to get out, stand his gun on the ground, and, holding it with his left hand, load it.
My father used to spend quite a lot of time in those parts, and painted at least a dozen pictures down there.
My father used to stay for months at a time in that little shanty there and paint pictures.
It became the principal ornament of my small sitting-room, which it nearly filled, and on it I tried to learn my notes, and would pick out with one finger the old beloved melodies my father used to sing, and my mother play on the harp.
My father used to make me paint their arms and quarterings when I was a child, on Sunday mornings, to keep me quiet.
There's the big one quite plain that father usedto tell me about.
Father used to say that manners didn't count any more than the good apples on the top of the box to hide the rotten ones beneath.
Father used to say that relatives were an affliction, and he supposed a man had to have afflictions to make a man of him, but if he had had any influence with Providence, he would have preferred not to be a man.
Father used to say that a man that couldn't lie was a fool and one who wouldn't, a bigger.
Father used to say, and he's right, that if a man reached forty without becoming a cynic, he was a fool and might better never have reached forty.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "father used" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
