habit-forming

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Examples

• Unlike former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Huckabee is not immediately forming an exploratory committee.

• The attendees, who included John Adams and George Washington, set about forming a plan of governance for the new nation.

• Hollywood has developed a habit of relying on what worked best in the past, and 300 was hugely successful.

• A minute ago I was convinced this wasn't going to work, and now I can feel a script forming.

• Does wildlife campaigner Prince Charles's hunting habit make him a hypocrite?

• All our intelligent students will insist upon learning what they can of these discussions and forming opinions for themselves.

• They are ovoid in shape, and lie in pairs, end to end, often forming short chains.

• She and her younger sister, Janet, had quarreled a good deal through force of unfortunate habit.

• Doubtless the commentator habit is fixed in the nature of man; but it was pre-eminently mediaeval.

• This habit and the fact that she cares more for color than for drawing are the usual criticisms of her pictures.