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Example sentences for "you used"

You used to take pride in your horses, Frances?

You used to spoil all my school maps with red lines, drawing our routes.

You used to know some jolly catches from the music halls.

You used to overrate me in the hopes you had of me.

But what you concealed by day, you used to talk of in the night.

Do you know--you used to be such an entertaining king, but this last year you have become so tedious!

Many a night, when I've lain on that straw, and thought I was dying, I've remembered you and all the things you used to say to me.

Do you like her as--as you used to like me?

And be sure behave as you used to do to your brother and sister; for your behaviour to them will be one test of your cheerful obedience to us.

Your father, replied she, is resolved not to see you, till he sees you as obedient a child as you used to be.

You used to have so much spirit when you was little.

Do you care as much for Cynthy as you used to?

You never come home and play and sing as you used to do.

You used rather to rejoice when I declined settling Glanyravon on a suitor.

And if you were as you used to be, if you--" "Madeline!

You used to tell me so and I loved to hear you.

If you were the same as you used to be, you would let Father help you.

Do you think YOU are exactly the same--as you used to be?

You are just as you used to be, just as charming and just as sweet.

I thought you would give me a welcome," said Mrs. Aylmer the less; "you used to be an affectionate girl.

You are not half as interested as you used to be.

You used to be much more amusing than you are now, Bertha.

You used to say that in Petersburg, I'm told, like Nozdryov, who tried to catch a hare by his hind legs.

If you like, I won't speak to you all my life, or if you like, you can tell me your stories every evening as you used to do in Petersburg in the corners.

You used to offer it to me," observed Pyotr Stepanovitch sourly.

I remember about you, though: you used to be a tutor in the house of Madame Stavrogin?

It was only a white lie; you used to say you were, you know.

And you always wanted to see Switzerland; you used to say so.

But as you used to supplement the motives of patriotism with the love of glory, in order to stimulate the valor of your soldiers, so do we.

You used to have some pretty large textile manufacturing establishments, even in your day, although not comparable with ours.

When you know more of it you will see where the money goes, as you used to say, and I think you will agree that we do well so to expend it.

You used to call persons who stole, evidently without any rational motive, kleptomaniacs, and when the case was clear deemed it absurd to punish them as thieves.

It was when I was getting well from the shot there at your house, and your nurse used to bring you up to play with me every day; and always before you went away, you used to kiss me.

I want to see if you look as you used to, and I want to know about the boys.

You used to have no objection to a glass of wine.

You used to give it me once, mon filleul!

You ain't as talkative as you used to be.

You're a bit bigger'n you used to be, when I made iron rings for you.

You used a name toward me that I permit no man to use," she said fiercely.

So you didn't find war quite such a jolly thing as you used to think it would be?

Why, you used to be as smart as they make 'em, a regular nipper after business.

Pretty shabby I thought it of you, too, after coming in and making such a fuss as you used to pretty well every afternoon.

You used to like band nights--to look forward to them all the week.

You used to come in after every sale and sit just where you're sitting now and go through the papers.

The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you 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:
both civil and criminal; cease fire; not known; you all; you believe; you knew; you like; you love; you must have been; you shall have the; you speak; you suppose; you would have been; young again; young animal; young artists; young brother; young fellows; young life; young person; young specimens; your age; your correspondent; your honour; your last; your readers