When to say “used to”
- Something that is normal or unusual: “I’m used to walking to work.”
- something that happened regularly in the past, but no longer occurs: “I used to play basketball.”
2. Something that happened regularly in the past
He used to teach at my school. Note that we can also use “used to” to refer to the state of things in the past: This restaurant used to be an office building.
The United States used to export more automobiles.
My hair used to be very long.