Sentence examples for a custom to from inspiring English sources

But I didn't even know it was a custom to give presents other than state visits".

Not such a surprise -- since it is a custom to name children after grandparents -- but an interesting symmetry nonetheless.

If Twitter is novel, a public deathbed is nothing new; in earlier centuries, it was a custom to die in public, surrounded by friends and townspeople.

When she gets to Berlin, she discovers that it is a custom to honor the pilot after he has flown his first million killometres.

"It's a custom to give a gift if you attend the wedding, but I'm not sure I like the words 'have to,' " she said.

Some fans stormed into downtown Morgantown, W.Va., and set 100 fires, more than usual on a campus where it is a custom to set fire to couches after football games.

According to Kampung Naga beliefs, by running a custom to honor the heritage means that they respect their ancestors.

It was a custom to put such heated stones inside one's clothing to stave off hunger during meditation.