used to

Definition:
Something happened continuously or frequently during a period in the past.

Use 'used to' in a sentence:

• 1. Yoga can be used to strengthen the immune system.
• 2. In particular, what if the example could be used to validate documents?
• 3. We used to grumble that we were wasting time learning a dead language.
• 4. We are a proud people. We are not used to begging or taking things.
• 5. Your immune system has been desensitized because it has become used to the substance.
• 6. Mum and I used to fall out a lot.
• 7. This piece of cloth can be used to make a pair of pillow cases.
• 8. I used to pour time and energy into projects that were doomed from the start.
• 9. A kid I used to be friends with turned against me after being told that I'd been insulting him.
• 10. Did she use to have long hair?
• 11. He used to be pottering about in a canoe on summer afternoons.
• 12. The church was crowded, so electrical machinery was used to relay the service out to the people.
• 13. I’m used to getting up early.
• 14. You used to see a lot of her, didn't you?
• 15. Many useful substances are now recovered from materials which used to be thrown away.
• 16. The villagers used to pound the grain into flour by hand.
• 17. We used to go sailing on the lake in summer.
• 18. I used to live in London.