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1. Legree was not an habitual drunkard.
2. They waited for his habitual response.
3. In my opinion you won't go, you're habituated to luxury.
4. His colloquialisms seemed to Carol no more lax than their habitual slang.
5. His habitual scepticism was like a direct inheritance from that old woman.

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 Meanings and Examples of HABITUAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
habitual
 a.  being by force of habit, established by long use
Classic Sentence: (97 in 7 pages)
1  His habitual touch was that of the eclectic, who lightly turns over and compares; and she was moved by this sudden glimpse into the laboratory where his faiths were formed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
2  Here, amid the blaze of crowded baccarat tables, he caught sight of Lord Hubert Dacey, seated with his habitual worn smile behind a rapidly dwindling heap of gold.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
3  To find Ned Silverton among the habitual frequenters of Mrs. Hatch's drawing-room was one of Lily's first astonishments; but she soon discovered that he was not Mr. Stancy's most important recruit.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
4  The baby, feeling herself detached from her habitual anchorage, made an instinctive motion of resistance; but the soothing influences of digestion prevailed, and Lily felt the soft weight sink trustfully against her breast.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
5  His colloquialisms seemed to Carol no more lax than their habitual slang.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  Even now I am certain that those seas are not, and perhaps never can be, in the present constitution of things, a place for his habitual gregarious resort.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
7  Her clients said that Lena 'had style,' and overlooked her habitual inaccuracies.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
8  His habitual scepticism was like a direct inheritance from that old woman.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
9  He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In III
10  Notwithstanding the symptoms of habitual suspicion, his countenance was not only without guile, but at the moment at which he is introduced, it was charged with an expression of sturdy honesty.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
11  Long and habitual deference to the mandates of his superiors had taught the scout the virtue of obedience.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
12  In selecting another to perform the office of reclaiming his highly prized rifle, the scout had lost sight of none of his habitual caution.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
13  I'd die, if I dared to, she said, looking out into the darkness, with that still, fixed despair which was the habitual expression of her face when at rest.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  Legree was not an habitual drunkard.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  He was assailed by a fancy for peevish familiarity, common enough to doctors and priests, but which was not habitual with him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
Example Sentence:
1  He's a habitual smoker--he always has a cigarette while having dinner.
2  They waited for his habitual response.
3  If bad posture becomes habitual, you risk long-term effects.
4  At the centre of it all is Martin Freeman, whose default expression of habitual bafflement (he appears to teeter perpetually on the brink of some conversational incline) is perfectly suited to the role of Bilbo Baggins.
5  In my opinion you won't go, you're habituated to luxury.
6  We find children's emotional needs difficult to respond to because we are habituated to disregarding our own.
7  One can habituate oneself to living alone, though rarely with any pleasure.