Sentence examples for familiar rite from inspiring English sources

For the Lerma family, the funeral was a familiar rite.

The exam is now a familiar rite of passage, fraught with anxiety.

IT'S a familiar rite of summer: in late June, children leave for camp in fleets of charter buses.

This familiar rite of passage might make it sound like everything is the same once again, but it's not.

Yet as new figures from the Department of Health show, adolescent delinquency, that familiar rite of passage, is fast disappearing.

So it was noteworthy when these 32 girls -- oops, young women -- went through the familiar rite of passage, before cheering relatives and whooping friends.

Hitting bottom — one of the more familiar rites of passage!

The familiar rote layering of a jumper over a shirt, as reassuring as butter on toast.

How'm I doin'?" This is not a good feeling, but the familiar rites of shopping soon help me focus.

These are familiar rites of passage for fledgling bands like Wardell, which descended on New York by the dozens this week for the CMJ Music Marathon.

All the familiar rites of passage are here, but presented evenly, without the cliched narrative beats – partly a function of the project's necessary open-endedness.