Sentence examples for ceremonial purpose from inspiring English sources

It is of no published architectural quality and serves no public or ceremonial purpose.

At the courts, panegyrical odes served a ceremonial purpose, with poets required to present them at festivals marking the New Year or at ʿĪd al-Fiṭr, the holiday that concludes Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting.

It was maybe a minute-long hiccup in an otherwise well-oiled show, which served at least one ceremonial purpose: christening the new stadium, just one day after the vote awarding it Super Bowl XLVIII.

Before the Spanish came to Florida, the Calusa, a mysterious group, lived there for hundreds of years and threw all of these shells into a pyre, maybe for some ceremonial purpose.

In contrast, vessels used in ritual contexts are often smaller and can be decorated with motifs indicating their ceremonial purpose; an elegant Cameroon Grassfields (but possibly Bamileke) vessel has a frieze of stylized spider motifs associated with royalty, suggesting it was probably used in a royal ceremony, perhaps to hold palm wine.

It is thought the structure may have had a ceremonial purpose.

"It probably was only used for ceremonial purposes.

(They were actually white homing pigeons, a more reliable bird for ceremonial purposes).

Early stools for ceremonial purposes were merely squared blocks of stone.

The peasants there are very attached to their crops, which serve traditional medicinal and ceremonial purposes.

It is thought that the Sichuan did not use the leis for ceremonial purposes.