How to use "usual" in a sentence

As usual, you speak with your mind and not your heart."

And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual

Two days later I was sitting in my office as usual

Mrs Lewis did nothing because cries like this were usual in Whitechapel

While guests and visitors ate and drank noisily, Cosette - now eight years old - sat in her usual place under the kitchen table

'Forty sous,' Mme Thenardier replied (although the usual price was twenty).

The next morning they gave him the bill, charging him three times the usual price for a meal and a bed for the night

Towards the end of the second week, while Marius was sitting in his usual place, he looked up from his book

Her companion as usual was M

One evening in April, he called at the usual time but was told that Cosette had gone out with her husband

You know that Sophie is sleeping in her usual position at the top of the stairs and that she never makes a noise in the night, and you wish, for the first time, that you also had a dog

But on the walkway home, he didn't talk as much as usual

To her surprise, Gran wasn't in the kitchen preparing their meal as usual

Mrs Van Hopper sat down at her usual table and stared at everyone in the restaurant.

It was half an hour before our usual lunch-time

I went to our usual table

She was bored now, and more bad tempered than usual

Maxim was sitting in his usual chair, with Jasper at his feet

The following day, after lunch, Frith brought our coffee to the library as usual

As usual, he was treating me like a child

I was someone more exciting and interesting than my usual self.

'We had better go down,' she said in her usual voice

After dinner, we went back into the library as usual

I went down to breakfast as usual

This afternoon, as usual, the drapes were closed

The active poison itself had already penetrated the victim's body, done its work, and begun to break down into a series of naturally occurring chemicals that would raise no alarms when the coroner later studied the results of the usual battery of forensic tests

We have to go after these two with more care than usual

As usual, he nodded off minutes after the aircraft lifted from the runway.

Tall lampposts were arrayed across this featureless plain, casting dim, reddish light that was severely directed downward to attract as little attention as possible from aircraft that strayed out of the usual flight patterns and from anyone backpacking elsewhere in these remote mountains

So when my sister-in-law phoned at two in the morning, asking me to come over, but first to warn the police that she had just killed my brother, I spoke in my usual calm manner.

'This isn't the usual sort of love affair between Anne and me.'

'He mentioned it this morning in the village, very loudly as usual.'

'Then there was that shot I heard,' said Miss Marple, 'Yes, the sound was different from the usual sort of shot.'

The milkman came as usual and I asked him the latest news

There were one or two carts with refugees going along Oxford Street, but the news was spreading so slowly that Regent Street and Portland Place were full of people taking their usual Sunday night walk

She looked at them and said, 'This will cost you three times the usual price.'

The Count replied, 'Later, when the ladies are asleep.' I said that I had a headache and went up to my room earlier than usual

She did not wear the usual tennis dress worn by female athletes