Sentence examples for custom of taking from inspiring English sources

At 4, they will help dismantle the altar, following the custom of taking their contributions home.

The members instituted the custom of taking the flowers they received at their coming-out parties, to the hospitals.

When I started college in the city where he lived, he began a custom of taking me out to dinner every other Sunday evening.

But he complied with the local custom of taking care of kith and kin by making one brother head of the state security service and another ambassador to Germany.

The human custom of taking a large percentage of the prey population and targeting the largest individuals--as with cod fishing--favors small individuals that breed before reaching trophy size, says Darimont.

Poking fun at himself several times, Francis said that his custom of not taking vacations outside the Vatican was one of his "neuroses".

At such times it had been Wendy's custom to take him out of bed and sit with him on her lap, soothing him… and when he grew calmer to put him back to bed before he quite woke up, so that he should not know of the indignity to which she had subjected him.

She gave her children the Shields name, which may have hinted at their paternity or simply been the custom of former slaves taking their master's surnames.

So it seemed wise to educate myself on the ins and outs of custom furniture before taking a leap of faith and winding up with a two-legged table.

The custom of the king taking his meals alone is widespread.

With Elizabeth's accession, it seemed probable that the royal house would bear her husband's name, becoming the House of Mountbatten, in line with the custom of a wife taking her husband's surname on marriage.