Sentence examples for antiquated custom from inspiring English sources
Though the club today seems like a relic of Princeton's old-boys-club era, heavy drinking on campus is no antiquated custom.
Why are we so enamored of this strange, antiquated custom?
Always the director, he decided where you were to be seated using the antiquated custom of place cards.
It's an identity eraser, and I didn't want to erase who I was; 3) I felt it was an antiquated custom that I didn't need to follow.
Among other things, aspects of Indian culture have been conflated with the nation's dominant religion, so that the caste system and other antiquated customs have come to be seen, erroneously, as central features of Hindu doctrine.
It's enough of a compromise to have to participate in the antiquated, sexist custom of asking the father's permission, but accepting this flattening-out of his identity is something Huang feels he's unwilling to do.
Scaraffia said in her open letter to the pope that it seemed as if a vital initiative had been "reduced to silence" and that there had been "a return to the antiquated and arid custom of choosing women considered trustworthy from on-high, under the direct control of men".
Mr. O'Leary said the disruption of service would be prolonged by the need to have a new control panel custom-made to the station's antiquated specifications.
I have a Kickstarter project up and running to fund Vuto's publication in hopes of raising awareness about such customs, which seem so strange and antiquated to the Western world.
Indeed, in an age when countries from China to Bahrain, Turkey, Malaysia and the Gulf states have invested in architectural racing monuments custom-made for Formula One, Silverstone is an antiquated facility — even if the teams and drivers say they have adequate room to work.
What was once rigidly held as indisputable truth, common custom or even law in one era can later be determined as antiquated in another (ancient Hebrew law required a man to marry his deceased brother's widow).
