Sentence examples for as rites from inspiring English sources

But since they were also things handed on, as rites of passage, they had their joys.

It was about this time when small tokens as rites of passage began to fade away.

Sikh Rahit Marayada, the manual that specifies the duties of Sikhs, names four rituals that qualify as rites of passage.

As rites of passage go, this may have been the one that announced beyond all doubt that he was ready for any test.

He devoted most of his attention to political events, but the work also covered such diverse subjects as rites, music, astronomy, geography, and economy.

Such rituals have often been classified as rites of passage, and the French anthropologist Arnold van Gennep's study of these rituals remains the classic book on the subject.

Ido's celebrations, once passionate, start to seem as rote as brushing your teeth in the morning.

Traditionalism is easily caricatured as rote learning — or, in the contemporary classroom, as endless test prep.

When it is, it's as rote, unchallenging turn-based battles.

This simple memorizing of individual items and procedures known as rote learning is relatively easy to implement on a computer.

Even in music dating to the 1970s, the Imposters didn't treat the songs as rote oldies.