Sentence examples for custom only from inspiring English sources

By custom, only men are allowed to play these lutes.

By custom, only sixth formers, boys in their final year of school, were allowed to compete.

A vestige of this cult persists in domesticated animal husbandry, where, by custom, only males may milk goats.

Subject: In accordance with Venetian custom, only the male members of the Vendramin dynasty are in this celebration of the family as a public institution.

Service here is polite and knowledgeable, though there are barriers of language and custom: only by watching others did we learn that it's possible to order custom-made sushi and that nonsushi dishes are available from a separate menu.

Why would a dedication inscription to King Eumenes call him a god when he was alive — yet Pergamene custom only deified dead rulers?

On walking out of Heathrow, the bloke at customs only wished to know whether there was any chance of a "dream" India-Pakistan final.

The script, by Abdel Raoul Dafri (A Prophet), smartly outlines how debt-laden publican Gilles Lellouche removes himself from one hole, by snitching to French customs, only to face another – dug by Italian traffickers.

Its name was taken from a medieval French term for male dancers who performed in public, sometimes satirizing social customs, but only wearing masks.

Preferring to keep the CQC6 as a custom-only knife, Emerson instead licensed a similar design of his, the CQC-7.

Preferring to keep the CQC-6 as a custom-only knife, Emerson instead licensed a similar design of his, the CQC-7.