Sentence examples for curious custom from inspiring English sources
"curious custom" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used in situations where there is a specific or unusual tradition or practice that catches one's attention. For example: "In this small village, the locals have a curious custom of wearing brightly colored hats on Wednesdays."
Photographs by Irina Werning address a curious custom in Argentina: women growing their hair to extraordinary lengths.
Another curious custom in the U.S.S.R. is that there is no starter and, naturally, no stall gates.
A curious custom among the Garos is that after marriage the youngest son-in-law goes to live in his wife's parents' house and becomes his father-in-law's nokrom, or clan representative in the mother-in-law's family.
The pain is no different than any other pain... or is it?" Looking to other cultures for possible answers, Vertosick notes: "Tribes in northern Russia had a curious custom.
Far from being a source of legitimate comparative advantage, low environmental standards are an abuse of the human rights of those people usually the poor who have to suffer their direct consequences through polluted water supplies and poisoned air.CAROLINE LUCASMEP, Green Party UKBrusselsSIR Common criminals in Chile have a curious custom when arrested.
But when curious customs agents took a look, they found evidence that may have helped them crack one of the biggest frauds in history against the Bundesbank, Germany's august central bank.
It's not just about the castle, the state rooms, St George's chapel etc; it's about some of the behind-the-scenes stuff, the curious customs and appointments you get with a monarchy.
Burton's translation of "The Arabian Nights" gave us Scheherazade and Sinbad and Ali Baba, of course, but it also gave us what Philip Larkin later hinted at with his poem relating the "16 sexual positions on the sand": the idea that the conquest of the hot and distant could be made a lot more bearable for the visitor if one only got to understand the locals' curious customs.
In a lighter vein, he wrote about the curious local custom of throwing octopuses onto the ice at Detroit Red Wings hockey games.
At home, I read Kerouac and Faulkner, listened to Michael Jackson and the Beastie Boys, studied curious American customs like Halloween, Thanksgiving, and the Super Bowl.
At best, she appeared to express the fascination of a visiting anthropologist for the natives of Rochester and Strood with their curious cultural customs.
