Sentence examples for commonplace custom from inspiring English sources
If you are in a booing situation and you are with your children, I recommend you remind them, in private, your stance on this pitiful (my stance) yet commonplace custom.
Although the book invites psychological analysis, its originality is anthropological, presented in descriptions of a Portuguese fishing community whose commonplace customs are retained even in a North American city.
Brutal customs that were commonplace for millennia have been largely abolished: cannibalism, human sacrifice, heretic-burning, chattel slavery, punitive mutilation, sadistic executions.
It was square and he designed it himself, long before custom guitar shapes became commonplace in rock.
Immigration reform is not a priority for the Obama administration; increasing deportations, long term detentions without trial, and the sharing of information between local law enforcement, federal agencies and immigration customs agencies are now commonplace.
But Hiney belongs to the postimperial generation, for whom exotic places, with all their disparity of wealth and custom on display, are a commonplace of undergraduate junkets.
It is apparently no longer enough for dedicated amateur or recreational cycling enthusiasts to pay $2,000 to $20,000 for custom-fit bikes, a practice that has become more commonplace in the last few years.
Long-held customs are fading too, with church attendance in deep decline and abortion and divorce now commonplace.
Brutal punishment and exposure -- the economically motivated custom of casting out children (particularly girls) in a public place to await their fate -- were commonplace.
