"habit" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Yet when I did indeed encounter her, the same force of passion descended on me and at once submerged my mind; speech seemed to drop away from me like a childish habit; and I but drew near to her as the giddy man draws near to the margin of a gulf.
- He bit down on his lip, a childish habit that came back when he was disturbed.
- Not that they needed contact but it was a friendly remnant of childish habit.
- "He had a childish habit of trying to portray himself as important," said an uncle in Lahore, Pakistan, Muhammad Farooq Said.
- Feeling unusually baffled, Ekka turned to her son, who was staring at the rug, pulling at his lip in that childish habit of his.
- We learn that a year or two after Annie first arrived at Tuscumbia, she wanted to break Helen of some childish habits.
- The Campbell commercials echo the tactics and tone of the commercials that have been running since late 1998 for Progresso, down to deriding the eating of the competitor's brand as a childish habit that adults ought to outgrow.
- The usually dashing Robson Green (shown above in "Wire in the Blood") stars in this television movie about two suburbanites (Mr. Green and Mark Benton) who have been friends since boyhood and can't get past their childish habit of constant competition.
- I have absolutely no idea where the childish habit of referring to a "train station" came from, but I have my suspicions.
- Farooq, who had also started regressing alarmingly, found in the knowledge of his father's death and the flight of his brother the strength to give up the childish habits which the jungle had at first re-created in him; he stopped crying when he was hungry and asking Why.
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