Sentence examples for less customary from inspiring English sources

Of course, here in America it is less customary to sneeze in the stew.

Mr. Bash's profile also contains information less customary on social networking sites: the date of his death.

For users with less customary religious interests or enthusiasms, the Software Connection area of Palm Inc.'s Web site offers a Hindu Vedic astrology program, a free program outlining the tenets of China's Falun Gong spiritual movement, and software called Tarot2Go.

It is more or less customary to assess all papers independently, and not a selection.

A 50 year old woman with uncontrolled hypertension [ID6] stated – it is more or less customary for people to cook food with salt in this region,… and for some people who may sometimes have stomach upset, tradition demands that one should pour salt into a cup of water and drink to treat the ailment; I used to do this too but being better aware, have now stopped the practice.

By half-time here South Africa, who had more or less their customary line-up compared with the Pumas' 10 changes, were 16-0 up with three penalties kicked by Pollard.

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.

Six contain less than the customary 12 percent alcohol.

Though singing with less than her customary volume, Barbara Frittoli compensated with flamboyant characterization as the manipulative princess Vitellia.

"High heels!" exclaimed Simon Callow, as, a little sore-footed, he sprinted up a set of stairs with a fraction less than his customary vigour.

Eckhart taught that "God's ground and the soul's ground is one ground," and the way to the realization of the soul's identity with God lay less in the customary practices of the religious life than in a new state of awareness achieved through radical detachment from all created things and a breakthrough to the God beyond God.