Sentence examples for a common custom is from inspiring English sources
A common custom is to scatter a handful of walnuts over the straw.
He told the assembly that people with a "sexual nature opposed to common custom" were being persecuted for impulses that "nature, mysteriously governing and creating, had implanted in them".
In conservative parts of Pakistan, keeping women in strict seclusion is a common custom.
It is a common custom to receive a blessing, however.
The granting of cities to female family members was a common custom at the time, and aside from Heraclea Pontica, Arsinoe's possession of any additional cities was likely either nominal or entailed only the receipt of revenues.
We agreed that this was a common custom in Europe also.
Also, as many homes in the city have front porches it's a common custom to see folks lounging on them, drink in hand, relaxing and engaged in conversation.
Christmas presents likely had their origins in Saturnalia, the Roman winter solstice festival at which gift-giving was a common custom.
In old Japan, it had been a common custom for people of high cultural standing to write a poem before death.
A common and widespread custom is the depositing of votive offerings, dedicated to certain saints, at holy places temples, churches, shrines, or chapels where the supplicant can be certain of their direct presence and aid.
