HABIT in a Sentence

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265 example sentences for HABIT, such as:

1. We have the habit of each other.
2. The fox changes his skin but not his habit.
3. Try not to revert to your old eating habits.
4. A smirk is really a terrible habit for any politician.
5. I suggest you don't make a habit of going around half naked.

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 Meanings and Examples of HABIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
habit
 n.  established disposition of the mind or character; distinctive dress, especially of a religious order
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  From long habit the train of thoughts ran so swiftly through my mind, that I arrived at the conclusion without being conscious of intermediate steps.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  He continued to walk up and down the room with his head sunk on his chest and his brows drawn down, as was his habit when lost in thought.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
3  If he could but once set eyes on him, he thought the mystery would lighten and perhaps roll altogether away, as was the habit of mysterious things when well examined.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
4  It was, at least, a ticklish decision that he had to make; and self-reliant as he was by habit, he began to cherish a longing for advice.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
5  Since you have been in the habit of visiting here, he has wanted in one sum as much as a hundred pounds.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
6  She reclined, propped up, from mere habit, on a couch: as nearly in her old usual attitude, as anything so helpless could be kept in.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
7  In virtue thereof, it had become her habit to assume a woful look, which woful look she now bestowed upon her patron.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
8  His countenance bore as little the marks of self-denial, as his habit indicated contempt of worldly splendour.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  This excuse she stated before a great council of the clergy of England, as the sole reason for her having taken the religious habit.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  We have the habit of each other.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  And habit, to my thinking, is more vital than any occasional excitement.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
12  But her love was somehow only an excursion from her marriage with Clifford; the long, slow habit of intimacy, formed through years of suffering and patience.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
13  It is really only the mechanism of the re-assumed habit.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  Their marriage, their integrated life based on a habit of intimacy, that he talked about: there were days when it all became utterly blank and nothing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
15  For Connie had got into the habit of sitting still by the fire, pretending to read; or to sew feebly, and hardly going out at all.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
Example Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
16  The fox changes his skin but not his habit.
17  I suggest you don't make a habit of going around half naked.
18  Each year one vicious habit rooted out,in time minght make the worst man good throughout.
19  Such was her obsession for collecting any memorabilia of her heart throb, that she stole about a million dollars from her employer, North Kesteven District Council, to fund her habit.
20  I think probably the most popular habit we writers cultivate is having coffee to hand.
21  An inveterate smoker, Bob cannot seem to break the habit, no matter how hard he tries.
22  Cinderella's ugly stepsisters had the odious habit of popping their zits in public.
23  At the end of the day, the only way out of this funk is to force myself into the habit of concentrating on the jobs at hand.
24  Although he wished to break the nicotine habit, he found himself impotent in resisting the craving for a cigarette.
25  A smirk is really a terrible habit for any politician.
26  My habit is to just stare at a long stretch of river looking for any signs of fish movement.
27  Something that is built, as for human habitation; a structure.
28  I don't long for luxurious life and gorgeous appearance , but I need a complete in habitation for sentiment.
29  Ability to think will accrue to you from good habits of study.
30  Try not to revert to your old eating habits.