lifelong habit

collocation in English

meaningsoflifelongandhabit

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lifelong
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈlaɪf.lɒŋ/us
/ˈlaɪf.lɑːŋ/
lasting for the whole of a ...
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habit
noun
uk
/ˈhæb.ɪt/us
/ˈhæb.ɪt/
something that you do often and regularly, sometimes without knowing that you are ...
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(Definition oflifelongandhabitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Once begun, opium was 'usually alifelonghabit' with a dose taken twice a day, usually morning and evening.
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His early days inculcated alifelonghabitof thrift.
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He attributed to two incidents hislifelonghabitof writing every day.
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At the age of 9 she began smoking, which has been alifelonghabit.
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He took work as a cigar salesman, which was the beginning of alifelonghabit.
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Writing and working at unusual hours became alifelonghabitof his.
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However, hislifelonghabitof learning and inquiry absorbed much of his time.
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He supplemented this basic education by developing alifelonghabitof study at home.
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He began alifelonghabitof collecting art, both by acknowledged masters and contemporaries.
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He was in thelifelonghabitof giving, and he gave in many directions.
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Pass had the unusuallifelonghabitof breaking his guitar picks and playing only with the smaller part.
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He had alifelonghabitof hard work and long days and while premier often slept for just four hours a night.
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She was known for producing finished articles from a first draft, without the need for revisions, an ability she attributed to herlifelonghabitof daily journal writing.
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Gompers and his lieutenants, with their silk hats and waistcoats, theirlifelonghabitof philosophical disputation over glasses of steaming tea, often looked like a band of privileged elitists.
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