Sentence examples for almost a rite of from inspiring English sources

Failure is almost a rite of passage".

Filling sandbags has become almost a rite of passage for students at local schools.

Plane crashes and mishaps are almost a rite of passage in the Iditarod community.

Like any great horror film it was almost a rite of passage to see it.

IT is almost a rite of passage for promising Shakespearean actors to play "Hamlet".

It is almost a rite of passage in the major leagues.

Oliver Stone put George W Bush on screen in W, and Tricky Dicky is almost a rite-of-passage for male American character actors, like Richard III for Shakespearian Brits: there have been scowly-jowly turns from Frank Langella, Kevin Spacey and John Cusack.

When it became clear that the President couldn't save everyone's life, it became a ritual for young Czech journalists — almost as a rite of initiation — to write terrible things about Havel, and he never got used to that.

Sterilisation for these women has almost become a rite of passage.

Ivana Tagliamonte, an agent with Halstead Property, says she has seen so many breakups that they almost seem a rite of passage for young New Yorkers.

Patrick Kwan, the director of grass-roots organizing for the Humane Society of the United States, said he had eaten the soup as a child — "It's almost like a rite of passage" — but hailed the governor's decision.