Sentence examples for custom place from inspiring English sources

Ms. Schettler started her sewing business in 1986 after enjoying success with braided wreaths she exhibited at a crafts show ("They were all the rage then," she said), and later branched out to custom place mats, table runners, napkins, toaster covers... and shower curtains.

In every society, religion, morality, and custom place limits on private property rights.

The body was washed in accordance with Islamic custom, placed in a white sheet, then put inside a weighted bag.

THERE are coffins made of cedar trees and, as was the Haida custom, placed around the village grounds.

One holds (clamps) the board into place so that its long edges may be trued and planed; custom places this vise at the left front of the bench, a convenient location for the right-handed workman.

She spotlighted the special stresses confronting married Jewish women from Eastern Europe when they arrived in the United States, for instance: although they were used to working outside the home, even as primary breadwinners in some ultrareligious families, they were initially housebound in America, where custom placed married women in the home.

Adult children were therefore obliged to provide all-round support to their parents, and it was a patrilineal obligation because the patrilocal custom placed married daughters on the filial map of their in-laws.

That hierarchy, reinforced by law and custom, placed white, heterosexual men at the top of the pyramid.

If you don't obey, the guardians of custom will place the muzombo on you.

"If you go to a custom kitchen place, they make it to within one thirty-second of an inch," Mr. Robohm said.

Always the director, he decided where you were to be seated using the antiquated custom of place cards.