(1) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
(2) Having long been accustomed to being the butt of other politicians' jokes, however, Farage is relishing what may yet become the last laugh.
(3) One group of rats (non-adapted) were anaesthetized (ip) with pentobarbital (P), urethane (U), ketamine (A), or althesin (A) without being accustomed to the laboratory environment prior to anaesthesia.
(4) They became accustomed to the pulse generator after a mean of 3.6 months.
(5) Southampton will be confident they can play through adversity, though Koeman admits that will become increasingly difficult over the festive period, a time when newcomers such as Tadic, Pellè and Mané are accustomed to having a winter break.
(6) The pathologist and those concerned with frequent performance of autopsies become accustomed to it.
(7) Accustomed to a world in which violence is pervasive, life is cheap and the public authorities – police and judiciary – cannot be relied upon to keep the peace or administer justice, many of Brazil's young men go armed and ready to use their weapons.
(8) Animals accustomed to the prescribed eating patterns ate promptly and at similarly rapid rates at all times of day.
(9) We have a society accustomed to the pursuit of prosperity and individual gratification, often resentful of immigrants, and possessing a perilously skin-deep attachment to democracy.
(10) A relationship was found between the setting of the practice and consulting behaviour: 20% of those who practised alone never consulted peers, whereas those in group practices and health centres were accustomed to do so regularly.
(11) In the context of what he called the "normalisation of war", Bacevich argued that unchallenged, expanding American military superiority encouraged the use of force, accustomed "the collective mindset of the officer corps" to ideas of dominance, glorified warfare and the warrior and advanced the concept of "the moral superiority of the soldier" over the civilian.
(12) Now, some are accustomed to Dawkins being a bit of a troll.
(13) As Harvey said with such flair, "nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten path".
(14) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
(15) In a first series of experiments rats were accustomed for two weeks to eat chow with capsaicin (250 micrograms: 1 g of food).
(16) Photograph: Adharanand Finn On another wall by a playground, Jeff points out the faces of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, and painted between them the question: “Hero or traitor?” The relative freedom Bogotá’s street artists have become accustomed too, however, may be about to change.
(17) The former BHS boss delivered his evidence with all the expansive confidence of a man accustomed to getting his own way from politicians for most of his long career.
(18) Instead, he headed to City Hall, attending Mayor's Question Time to watch Johnson bask in the sunshine to which he himself had been accustomed.
(19) The son of Malaysia's second prime minister, the nephew of its third, president of the dominant United Malays National Organisation (Umno), and a former defence minister, Najib was born to power and is accustomed to wielding it.
(20) And that's why bilingual children can say that "Apples grow on noses" is said the right way: they are accustomed to resolving the conflict between form and meaning.
Enure
Definition:
(v. t.) See Inure.
Example Sentences:
(1) District nursing is facing a period of significant change, and it is up to the profession to enure this is a positive thing.
(2) Oral administration of 100 ppm solution of ENUR induced 100% of tumors in the forestomach, 46%, 80%, 71%, and 51% in the oral cavity and pharynx, esophagus, duodenum, and liver, respectively.
(3) In addition, topical application of ENUR induced tumors of the skin as well as tumors of the forestomach and liver.
(4) Carcinogenic effect of N-ethyl-N-nitrosourethan (ENUR) and N-amyl-N-nitrosourethan (ANUR) was examined by continuous oral administration or topical application to female Donruy rats.
(5) In groups given 0.6 ppm or more ENUR, digestive tract tumors were induced dose-dependently.
(6) A dose-response study on the carcinogenicity of N-ethyl-N-nitrosourethane (ENUR) was undertaken to examine its effect at low doses.
(7) ENUR was dissolved in distilled water at dose levels of 0 (control), 0.15, 0.6, 2.5 and 10 ppm, and rats were given these solutions ad libitum for 2 years.
(8) Significant increase of the total tumor incidences and shortening of the mean survival times were observed in groups given 2.5 and 10 ppm ENUR.