INVETERATE in a Sentence

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19 example sentences for INVETERATE, such as:

1. He was an inveterate gambler, though a poor loser.
2. She was an inveterate experimenter in these things.
3. But I don't envy Sir Malcolm his inveterate mortal carnality.
4. An inveterate smoker, Bob cannot seem to break the habit, no matter how hard he tries.
5. It revived my utmost indignation to find that she was still pursued by this fellow, and I felt inveterate against him.

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 Meanings and Examples of INVETERATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inveterate
 a.  deep-rooted; firmly and long established; habitual
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  It revived my utmost indignation to find that she was still pursued by this fellow, and I felt inveterate against him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXV
2  In my honeymoon, too, when my most inveterate enemy might relent, one would think, and not envy me a little peace of mind and happiness.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
3  The gentleman with the gray whiskers was obviously an inveterate adherent of serfdom and a devoted agriculturist, who had lived all his life in the country.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
4  It is only indispensable with an inveterate running whale; its grand fact and feature is the wonderful distance to which the long lance is accurately darted from a violently rocking, jerking boat, under extreme headway.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
5  He was an inveterate gambler, though a poor loser.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
6  He passed the groups of dead with a steadiness of purpose, and an eye so calm, that nothing but long and inveterate practise could enable him to maintain.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
7  The royal policy had long been to weaken, by every means, legal or illegal, the strength of a part of the population which was justly considered as nourishing the most inveterate antipathy to their victor.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  She was an inveterate watercolour painter, and the house was full of rose-coloured palaces, dark canals, swaying bridges, medieval facades, and so on.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
9  But I don't envy Sir Malcolm his inveterate mortal carnality.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
10  He spoke upon all subjects except the sciences, alleging in this respect the inveterate hatred he had borne to scholars from his childhood.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS
11  But what was clearest in all this was that the true hatred, the profound hatred, the inveterate hatred of Milady, was increased by his not having killed her brother-in-law.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS
12  The minister and the king exchanged numerous caresses, felicitating each other upon the fortunate chance which had freed France from the inveterate enemy who set all Europe against her.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 67 CONCLUSION
13  She was an inveterate experimenter in these things.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  An inveterate Bonapartist; took an active part in the return from the Island of Elba.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28. The Prison Register.
15  Mr. Hubbard was a florid, red-whiskered little man, whose admiration for art was considerably tempered by the inveterate impecuniosity of most of the artists who dealt with him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
Example Sentence:
1  An inveterate smoker, Bob cannot seem to break the habit, no matter how hard he tries.