Sentence examples for a strange practice from inspiring English sources

IN Mexico, there is a strange practice known as the "art of renting".

With the continual erosion of freedoms in the UK over the past few years, nations previously regarded as despotic can now say: "Nice to see you've finally come around to our way of thinking". There is a strange practice in Guantánamo Bay that exists to this day – several years after my release.

While it is interesting to see how these artists respond when confronted with the content limitations of radio, re-rapping songs is a strange practice that supporters of artistic freedom might compare to painting clothes on nudes before they can be displayed in a museum where children might see them.

Over the last couple of weeks, reports from the New York Times, Vulture, and Music Business Worldwide have brought to light a strange practice at Spotify.

I didn't take a gap year, but I have heard plenty of stories about doing something reckless in search of a rush, and New Zealand caters to such whims in all sorts of ways, from skydiving to bungee jumping to that strange practice of mimicking a giant gerbil in a plastic ball, called "zorbing".

Steve Carlton's icy silence and strange practice rituals made him an Age of Aquarius enigma — Brian Wilson with a hard slider — before his second career as an alleged conspiracy theorist.

Collecting unwashed forks might seem like a strange artistic practice but, with friends in the right places (read: working at luxury catering companies), it takes on a whole new meaning.

When the first European settlers arrived in Australia in the 17th century, they observed a strange farming practice among the natives.

In Borneo, the rhino was said to have a strange carnivorous practice: after defecating in a stream, it would turn around and eat fish that had been stupefied by the excrement.

Melzer explores the various motives that led thinkers in different times and places to engage in this strange practice, while also exploring the motives that lead more recent thinkers not only to dislike and avoid this practice but to deny its very existence.

That's the "common sense" message Canada's public safety minister has been delivering to media on both sides of the border this week, after VICE brought the strange practice to light last month.