Sentence examples for common rites from inspiring English sources

Explain that because "coming-of-age" ceremonies like the one featured in this article are among the most common rites of passage in most societies around the world, they will serve as the focus of this activity.

Apparently one of the common rites of passage in myrmecology is the measuring of ants, in particular the heads of ants, which can be done by holding an ant in forceps steady under a stereomicroscope and judging its size with a scale built into the scope's eye piece.

Municipal budget battles are a common rite of spring.

This changed in recent years, as the draft ended and military service became a far less common rite of passage.

It's a common rite of passage for young parents in many urban areas, but especially New York City: the move to the suburbs.

But not long ago, it was a common rite of marriage, writes James Crombie of Aberdeen, who has gathered some matrimonial footwear-hurling facts into a 24-page treatise called Shoe-Throwing at Weddings.

I'd missed out on this common rite of womanhood: I've never purchased one because the DIY version didn't exist last time I needed to check.

It is a nearly universal experience here, a much more common rite of passage than going to college is in America.

Circumcision is a ritual obligation for infant Jewish boys and is also a common rite among Muslims, who account for the largest share of circumcised men worldwide.

Ironically, however, when it came to her memorial service, Phyllis chose to embrace a form of worship that is about as hierarchical and orthodox as Protestant worship can be: a "Requiem Eucharist" service at St . Marys Episcopal Cathedral following the old Episcopal "Rite I" liturgical form ("Rite I" is even "higher church" than the more common "Rite II" service).

For many black men, it's through a prism stained by the fact that a negative, sometimes racially charged, encounter with a policeman is a far-too-common rite of passage.