The poor girl liked to be thought clever, but she hated to be thought bookish; she used to read in secret and, though her memory was excellent, to abstain from showy reference.
Mrs. Luce had been living in Paris since the days of Louis Philippe; she used to say jocosely that she was one of the generation of 1830--a joke of which the point was not always taken.
And he would think of her as she used to be--well and happy--adopting unconsciously the methods of those mental and other scientists whom he looked upon as quacks.
She used to drive the old retriever in harness on the lawn covered with acorns and the dead leaves, and the wind still blowing them off the trees--in her brown velvet--that was a ducky dress!
I don't care if I marry a man with white hair, provided he can make a nice living for me,' she used to say.
Talmud, as she used to do at home, she persisted in sending him out to peddle.
I vividly recall these brooding airs as she used to sing them, for I have inherited her musical memory and her passionate love for melody, though not her voice.
But when I came to think again, I felt sure that I was doing her wrong in this; and so I went on, as I did at first, hoping to see her once more, just as she used to be.
When she is well again, she will rise early, as she used to do, and ramble abroad in the healthy morning time.
She used to talk with him on literary and philosophical questions.
I shall be turning my wheel when I die," she used to say, and, after all, this is the proper ending for a literary worker.
George Sand tells us that when Berquin's stories were being read to her at Nohant, she used to sit in front of the fire, from which she was protected by an old green silk screen.
But, as she used to say to her granddaughter, "no one was ever old in those days.
She used gradually to lose the sense of the phrases, but pictures began to form themselves in front of her on the green screen.
She was not good; she was not original: she used to repeat sounding phrases from books: she never offered, nor had, an opinion of her own.
She used to call me "Master" in our talks, a monstrous and engaging flattery, and I was inordinately proud to have her as my pupil.
YOUR father," she used to call him, as though I had got him for her.
She took a considerable interest in the housework that our generally servantless condition put upon her--she used to have a charwoman in two or three times a week--but she did not do it with any great skill.
She used to reserve for him a special smile wherein one felt the kindliness of an artist's eye arrested by and dwelling on a pleasing type, and the satisfaction of a jaded mind amused by anything new, however simple in appearance it may be.
She used to draw a comparison between herself and those jelly-fish whose transparent brilliancy, so much alive in the cool movements of the waves, drift to their death on the shore in little gelatinous pools.
When Elsa heard that, she used to laugh, but she never, never told.
She used to sit at the open door of her office, in a calico gown and a little shawl, and give a good word to everybody, rich or poor.
So they made a statue of her, just as she used to look, sitting in her own office door, or driving in her own little cart.
She used to write me long letters about Fanchon, a dog whose personal acquaintance I had made some time before, while on a visit to her cottage.
She used to come to the village with herbs and roots to sell.
She used to say that New York in matting and hollands was almost as nice as Buda-Pesth.
Between him and Bertha there existed a great friendship, and she apprehended his nature; she used to say that sometimes she was afraid of him, he looked at her so intelligently; she was never certain that he was what he appeared to be.
She used to come and say that to Mrs. Bird oftener than to any one else.
She used to dress out and make a great show, and she never seemed to take much interest in the child, and folks began to say she wasn't treated right.
When she had a longing to share her transports, she used to come into my study and say in an imploring tone: "Nikolay Stepanovitch, do let me talk to you about the theatre!
And, though she hated me, she used to beg my pardon in private; and though her pride would often get the better of her, yet her prudence obliged this magnificent princess to humble herself to the poor penniless Irish boy.
She used to ruin people, and yet they all loved her.
Sidonie had forgotten to tell him of this latest purchase; she used no ceremony with him now.
The most dismal things on earth," she used to say.
As she worked, she used to cheer and comfort him, for Sidonie had caused poor Frantz many little griefs before the last great one.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "she used" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
