Sentence examples for custom serves from inspiring English sources

This custom serves is a reminder to the infertile couple of their social obligations to procreate and results in personal frustration.

Familiarity with Arabic and Islamic customs serves Mackintosh-Smith well in North Africa and on the Arabian peninsula, where he's often mistaken for a Muslim.

But not all of Japan's customs serve it well.

He inaugurated the custom of serving rum & water every morning to ward off tripical fever.

The author discusses the custom of serving girls on silver platters as entertainment at bachelor dinners.

He also created the practice of outfitting waiters in white ties and aprons, and the custom of serving courses sequentially.

His men named the drink "grog" in his honor, and the custom of serving it spread through the fleet, finally getting embedded in the naval regulations.

Members of the Senate (upper house) are chosen by councils of chiefs, in accordance with Samoan custom, to serve four-year terms.

(At least, they all enjoyed making it with Hepburn, as Todd McCarthy notes in his biography of Hawks, continuing "her custom of serving tea on the set").

By S. J. Perelman The New Yorker, July 14 , 1956P. 18 The author discusses the custom of serving girls on silver platters as entertainment at bachelor dinners.

"It is a very old custom to serve opium when near and dear ones are invited," television networks quoted him as saying.