In Germany, people used to crown their heads or gird their bodies with mugwort, which they afterwards threw into the midsummer bonfire, pronouncing certain rhymes and believing that they thus rid themselves of all their ill-luck.
Near Peronne, in the French department of Somme, people used to go out fasting before sunrise on St. John's Day to cull the plant; put among the wheat in the barn it protected the corn against mice.
I don' know whe' it true or no, but de people used to say I took after my mother.
People used to know how to carry demselves en take care of demselves more den dey do now.
Oh, I hear talk bout all kind of signs de people used to worry over en some of dem still frets bout dem, too.
Yes, mam, de people used to have more chillun en dey raised dem, too.
People used ox teams in place of mule and horse teams.
People used to sing more religious songs seems like than they do now.
People used to stick their heads under washpots to sing and pray.
People used to go about saying that the Germans were the hereditary enemy, and that the Fatherland was taking the lead of all other countries.
When he sat thus, pondering over and fingering some perfectly familiar object, people used to say, "Now Bjerregrav's questioning fit is coming on!
People used to wonder why the Dogherty family were so fond of that wild situation, so far away from all human kind, and in the midst of huge scattered rocks, with nothing but the wide ocean to look upon.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "people used" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
