Sentence examples for an initiation into from inspiring English sources

On most Saturdays, it offers an "initiation" into the "Cha-Zen" tea ceremony in the stone cellar (reservations a must).

As an initiation into the Olympics, the experience was both dispiriting and un-Klammeresque.

As an immigrant, it was an initiation into Canadian life, an experience that forever ties me to the country.

It felt like an initiation into the world of grown-ups.

"We are looking for things that go beyond nudity," Mr. Koestenbaum added, "stories that tell of an initiation into some kind of patrician club or guild.

The tiny, bright rooms felt like an initiation into a city that I'd come to know, through television, as a place where people very often lived alone.

The body was found about 200 yards downstream from where the two students entered the water early Saturday morning as part of an initiation ritual into a social club, said Chesterfield fire Lt. Jason Elmore.

So relatively speaking, as an initiation fee into the exclusive club of exotic car owners, the Huracan isn't really that expensive.

Several years earlier, however, on a trip to Florence, I'd had a memorable initiation into a much older use of that technique.

Increasingly, it seems that Sept. 11 was a painful initiation into a truly global society.

Here, the viewer can acquire an instant initiation into the splendors of calligraphy, an exceptionally accessible work.