grow used to

Example Sentences

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As rapid price increases linger, central bankers fret that consumers and businesses will grow used to them.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022

That’s hard to remember: we grow used to the ways we pay our bills and are paid for our work, to the dance of numbers in our bank balances and credit-card statements.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 29, 2019

I did not want to grow used to the dark.”

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2017

“To live in freedom,” De Tocqueville warned, “one must grow used to a life full of agitation, change and danger.”

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2016

Either way, he was beginning to grow used to the sight of them and wished he could keep them, even if it was just to show Pili.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova