Did at times in the past

Usage examples of used to.

If the talent and passion can be used to make money, it is a hedgehog.

These chapters are right, now, in every detail, for they were rewritten under the immediate eye of William Hicks, who studied law part of a while in southwest Missouri thirty-five years ago and then came over here to Florence for his health and is still helping for exercise and board in Macaroni Vermicelli's horse-feed shed, which is up the back alley as you turn around the corner out of the Piazza del Duomo just beyond the house where that stone that Dante used to sit on six hundred years ago is let into the wall when he let on to be watching them build Giotto's campanile and yet always got tired looking as Beatrice passed along on her way to get a chunk of chestnut cake to defend herself with in case of a Ghibelline outbreak before she got to school, at the same old stand where they sell the same old cake to this day and it is just as light and good as it was then, too, and this is not flattery, far from it.

I now buy very high-quality shoes, and they seem to last forever, whereas the cheapos used to wear out quickly and always looked as cheap as the price I’.

I used to pray a car would hit Audrey or fall over a cliff or get run down by a buffalo stampede.

Later fish had lungs and lobe-like fins that could be used to support them when they emerged from the sea and ventured onto the land.

These will be used to support the avocado pit when it is placed over a glass.

This will be the way to obtain an indefinitely large supply of antimatter which can then by used to power the kind of ships that would make interstellar travel possible.

This will be the way to obtain an indefinitely large supply of anti-matter which can then be used to power the kind of ships that would make interstellar travel possible.

It's not too interesting, and it kind of reminds me when our old bird used to stand on top of his cage and give everyone crap just for being around.

And for another thing, the stims themselves would become pretty suspicious, and deeply confused if the world they inhabited suddenly stopped obeying the rules they had become used to.

However, I soon got used to the idea, for the passage now level, now running down, and still always to the southeast, kept going deeper and deeper into the profound abysses of Mother Earth.

It is a term that wise Ambalasei used to describe something new that Ugunenapsa brought to the Yilanè.

Some of the things we had to do were fairly major departures from what the company had been used to doing, and, not surprisingly, would be difficult and involve major dislocations.

The engineers were used to building survival suits for work on worlds whose lifeforms were nothing more than var­.

The tags were effectively invisible, once you got used to them, unless you consciously concentrated on seeing them, but they provided a way for the user to distinguish who was who.