Sentence examples for customary English from inspiring English sources

A sentence like this one stands at a slight angle to customary English usage: "I piled different sorts of blebby pierogi and a cup of limpid tea on my tray".

It was customary in English homes to arrange flowers and branches in the hearth during the summer months when the fireplace was not in use.

Pope Alexander VII decreed in 1659 that the crosiers of abbots include a sudarium or veil, but this is not customary in English heraldry.

In the 19th century, it was customary for young English gentlemen to spend a few months, even years, on a "grand tour" of Europe, returning home with mementos that might have included trinkets of coral from this Neapolitan community at the foot of Mount Vesuvius.

Ferguson's team, Manchester United, had needed only to beat the bottom side Blackburn Rovers on Saturday to end 2011 alone in its customary spot atop the English Premier League.

One newton is equal to a force of 100,000 dynes in the centimetre-gram-second (CGS) system, or a force of about 0.2248 pound in the foot-pound-second (English, or customary) system.

Even though Congress set up a framework for the use of the metric system in the nineteenth century, the United States continues to use US customary units, based on English measure passed by parliament under the reign of Queen Anne in 1706, for most purposes apart from science and medicine, though as a result of their Spanish heritage, metric units are used widely in Puerto Rico.

English, Islamic, and customary laws have been absorbed into the legal system.

The Nigerian legal and judicial system contains three codes of law: customary law, Nigerian statute law (following English law), and Sharīʿah (Islamic law).

In Mr. Hall's "Shrew," Petruchio (Dugald Bruce-Lockhart) is less the customary cunning strategist than what the English would call a yob — a muscle-flexing, ale-swilling lout who regards dropping trou and urinating in public as signs of manliness.

In January 1605, Charles was created Duke of York, as is customary in the case of the English sovereign's second son, and made a Knight of the Bath.