Sentence examples for custom has been from inspiring English sources

The custom has been falling into disuse.

Recent custom has been that the prime minister rubber-stamps the first choice of the CNC.

This custom has been sanctioned by legislation in many U.S. states.

The running of elections, by law and custom, has been left to the states since the founding of the republic.

Tipping Tipping is not part of Chinese culture or tradition, but the Western custom has been spreading in recent years.

A remarkable post-funerary custom has been observed in Islām; it is known as the Chastisement of the Tomb.

At Place de la République on Wednesday evening – seven days into 2015 – the custom had been abandoned as inappropriate.

Very many witnesses, who it was said would testify to such custom, had been proffered and the proposed evidence rejected; all were again tendered.

Many neighbors have been annoyed by cars parked on stretches of street that by neighborhood custom have been used by residents' second cars.

She has served 35 years, a big portion of her life sentence, and pleads to be released; if the crime were mere robbery-murder and not deemed political, she would, by custom, have been paroled, with good behavior.

One of the earliest definite records of a widow burning herself on her husband's pyre is found in an inscription from Eran, Madhya Pradesh, dated 510, but the custom had been followed sporadically long before this.