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547 examples of Habit in a sentence

But I was thinking that, since I plan to make a lifelong habit of coming back to TED, that maybe I could talk about that another time.
The reason I can remember them is because they are creatures of habit.
Having this habit, this mental habit, changes everything at work.
We know that Heather, his sister Heather, 14 years old, is turning tricks up here to support her drug habit.
On my show, on "White Coat, Black Art," I made it a habit of saying, "Here's my worst mistake," I would say to everybody from paramedics to the chief of cardiac surgery, "Here's my worst mistake," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, "What about yours?" and I would point the microphone towards them.
And this represents their habit of basking on the surface when the sun is out.
Renewables is one of the leading ideas for how we could get off our 90 percent fossil-fuel habit.
Some may have considered me foolhardy, but it's been my habit to brush aside the fear of mathematics when talking to candidate scientists.
Now this is a totally reasonable assumption, given that I have made quite a habit of encouraging people to spend more time playing games.
But the truth won't set us free until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
And I'm not even talking about polysemy, which is the greedy habit some words have of taking more than one meaning for themselves.
Now I don't just mean in the field of daft macho Edwardian style derring-do, but also in the fields of pancreatic cancer, there is something addictive about this, and in my case, I think polar expeditions are perhaps not that far removed from having a crack habit.
I read about a study recently of successful entrepreneurs, and the author found that these people shared a habit that he called "productive paranoia," which meant that these people, instead of dismissing their fears, these people read them closely, they studied them, and then they translated that fear into preparation and action.
You can think what your own habit is, whether it's a new car, a vacation or just something like buying bottled water when the water that comes out of the tap is perfectly safe to drink.
Encountering a new culture also started my habit of comparative reading.
Adding just one healthy habit pulls overweight people back into the normal range.
We see projects which are much beyond any single research team can do, and this is really new for the humanities, which very often take the habit of working in small groups or only with a couple of researchers.
Lettuces have a habit of going soggy in the crisper drawers, don't they?
All companies need to move to an encrypted browsing habit by default for all users who haven't taken any action or picked any special methods on their own.
My hobby had become a habit, and my habit gave me possibly the world's most eclectic Netflix queue.
Not a nice habit, and we know perfectly well the person gossiping, five minutes later, will be gossiping about us.
And if you repeat that one, it's actually restricting your ability to communicate through prosody, which I think is a shame, so let's try and break that habit.
You had to live, did live, from habit that became instinct, in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard and except in darkness every movement scrutinized."
Washing hands with soap, a habit we all take for granted, can reduce diarrhea by half, can reduce respiratory infections by one third.
And when you think about this, you think about what is required to make handwashing a daily habit, it requires sustained funding to refine this behavior.
Hiding is a progressive habit, and once you start hiding, it becomes harder and harder to step forward and speak out.
Now, ruminating about upsetting events in this way can easily become a habit, and it's a very costly one, because by spending so much time focused on upsetting and negative thoughts, you are actually putting yourself at significant risk for developing clinical depression, alcoholism, eating disorders, and even cardiovascular disease.
The problem is, the urge to ruminate can feel really strong and really important, so it's a difficult habit to stop.
I know this for a fact, because a little over a year ago, I developed the habit myself.
Now, there's another way to do it, and that's by increasing justness in corporate behavior, but the way that we're operating right now, that would require a tremendous change in behavior, and like an addict trying to kick a habit, the first step is to acknowledge that you have a problem.
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