Sentence examples for ceremonial thing from inspiring English sources

"Are they an African ceremonial thing?

Was he backstage, doing some kind of ceremonial thing with the crew?

They will not be used on Boxing Day as "it's mostly a ceremonial thing".

This was not an honorary or a ceremonial thing, she wasn't a penthouse philanthropist just writing checks or something like that.

(Side note: I now have a new roommate who is, like, totally in love with Madness and dancing madly to "Our House" whenever it comes on has become a sort of ceremonial thing we do. It happens a lot more often than you would think).

"A lot of ceremonial things took place singing, praying, having a feast".

He makes a clear distinction between "magic," which he defines as "prestidigitation and conjuring, illusions and stage magic … the magic of Hollywood," and "magick"—"a more psychic, ceremonial, and traditional thing".

The game was not stopped for ceremonials — and good thing, since its story had a way to go.

"There was something very ceremonial about the whole thing, and the property value thing was weird," she said.

Since the job of surgeon general is largely ceremonial, the most important thing about the selection, which must be approved by the Senate, is what it tells of the president making it.

"When people come to me because of a sudden illness," the shaman was telling me as he painstakingly mended a crack in a highly-prized ceremonial gourd, "the first thing I do is ask them, 'Who recently asked for your help that you refused?' ".