Meanings of growing habit in English

More significant, indeed, is the fact that striking is a growing habit.

Consider plant varieties that have a compact growing habit when making your selections.

Winnipeg, having acquired the growing habit, expands by leaps and bounds.

Some one spoke of the growing habit of feeing employés to do their duty.

To a growing habit of unremitting vigilance and suspicion, I may thank my life.

This growing habit of skulking was gall and wormwood.

I was told of a growing habit among village boys of running off to Tokyo without their parents' permission.

The quick-fire shuffle of consumers from one product to another, and then to a third, appears to be a growing habit.

Rarely has a novelist's consistent use of the present tense -a growing habit in literary fiction -been more purposeful.

The one made them rather poorer than richer; the other brought upon them a growing habit of penuriousness, gloom and irritability.

But worse than this was the growing habit of carelessness, which would be of great harm to her all her life.

For several weeks I had been observing in him a growing habit of delay in answering even the most trivial of commonplace questions.

In view of the growing habit of pinching food, the pre-war custom of chaining them to the umbrella-stand is no longer regarded as safe.

Hers was an alert, vigorous mind, bright and strong like a steel trap, and her brother's vagueness and growing habit of inattention irritated her.

"It is a growing habit with you, and you must try to check it."

This system had been adopted and he goes to hear a sermon On the Growing Habit of Careful Patient Investigation as Encouraging Casuistry.