Habit
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547 examples of Habit in a sentence
The best Germany can do in the Middle East is to arrange yet another peace parley in Berlin, as is the German
habit.
Although economists are well positioned to develop institutional arrangements that go beyond what already exists, their
habit
of thinking at the margin and sticking close to the evidence at hand encourages an aversion to radical change.
Although there are important differences between today’s coronavirus epidemic and the SARS outbreak – including far greater technological capacity to monitor disease – they may have the CPC’s
habit
of cover-ups in common.
This reflected the Obama administration’s
habit
of selective non-intervention – the approach that encouraged China, America’s main long-term rival, to become more aggressive in pursuit of its claims in the South China Sea, including building and militarizing seven artificial islands.
They do so out of force of habit, inertia, and laziness – and may continue to do so for a long time.
Kim has already made a
habit
of calling Chinese President Xi Jinping before and after his summits with Trump, and his regime will probably be in more frequent contact with the Kremlin, too.
Yet much of the West, as well as Asia, continues to assume the worst about China – a
habit
of mind that could have catastrophic consequences.
'There now!' said Katavasov with a drawl, a
habit
he had fallen into when lecturing.
He had no words to express his desire for this liberation, and therefore did not speak of it; but went on from
habit
demanding satisfaction of those wishes that could be fulfilled.
He knew many persons whom he could invite to dinner, could ask to take part in anything he was interested in or to use their influence for some petitioner, and with whom he could frankly discuss the actions of other men and of the Government; but his relations with these persons were confined to a sphere strictly limited by custom and
habit
from which it was impossible to escape.
Please let's go!' said Vasenka, sitting down and once more doubling his leg under him, as his
habit
was.
Anna noticed Dolly's expression, became confused, blushed, let her
habit
slip out of her hands, and stumbled over it.
I always loved you, and if one loves, one loves the whole person as he or she is, and not as one might wish them to be.'Anna, turning her eyes away from her friend and screwing them up (this was a new
habit
of hers and unfamiliar to Dolly), grew thoughtful, trying thoroughly to grasp the meaning of the remark.
asked Dolly, suddenly remembering that strange new
habit
Anna had of screwing up her eyes.
'From habit, for one thing.
It's a habit, and one knows that it's necessary!
I have got so out of the
habit
that it makes me feel ashamed.
'I did, but I always felt ashamed, and now I am so out of the
habit
of it that, seriously, I would rather go without dinner for two days than pay that call!
And for a moment from force of
habit
he felt as if he were in fault.
But the Princess Myagkaya immediately interrupted him, as was her habit, and commenced telling her own tale.
The
habit
of discipline made the men stand in rows while the engineer passed through the group without a word.
Only one thing put him out of temper: two lovers had acquired the bad
habit
of embracing outside his wall.
In all other respects he was accepted and looked upon as a real miner, reduced beneath this pressure of habit, little by little, to a machine.
Zacharie and Philoméne came back to it out of old domestic habit; Mother Brulé, always on Lydie's heels, was constantly hunting her out with Jeanlin, buried so deeply together that one had to tread on them before they made up their minds to get up; and as to Mouquette, she lay about everywhere--one could not cross a field without seeing her head plunge down while only her feet emerged as she lay at full length.
It was now a perverse plaything, the
habit
of the woman, a recreation taken like an accustomed dessert.
"Just because they don't make a
habit
of it," the Canadian replied in all seriousness, "doesn't mean they don't indulge from time to time.
Conseil, a creature of habit, came to ask "how master's night went," and to offer his services.
Out of
habit
I waited for him to pronounce his daily phrase.
"Oh really?""Yes, captain, although since I've been aboard your vessel, I should have formed the
habit
of not being amazed by anything!"
Accordingly, I'm in the
habit
of staying in the pilothouse and directing maneuvers myself.
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