Sentence examples for lore dictates from inspiring English sources
The feasting starts around 6pm and continues into the small hours, with a break at dusk to light a bonfire (Danish lore dictates that a witch be burnt, to send her back to Bloksbjerg, in northern Germany's Harz mountains).
Festival lore dictates that as soon as you put on your latest boxfresh trainers and head off to watch your favourite band, the rain clouds will gather and your limited edition footwear will never be the same again.
Clinical lore dictates that craving drives the compulsive use of drugs and alcohol — the core feature of substance dependence.
While there is little scientific evidence to support the claim, popular lore dictates that light colors and contrasting colors are more appealing to ladybugs.
They may be trendy, but at least we've broken from lore that dictates witches are ugly and evil.
The lore associated with them dictates the decorative schemes of the robes and other objects, but by spreading themselves so widely the dragons become less palpable beasts than static, artful symbols.
Erszebet conducts her investigation in secret and according to the dictates of Gypsy lore she picked up as a child, but she also has access to worlds her husband knows nothing about.
And by not being bound to the many rules dictated by vampire lore, the mermaid genre is much more flexible.
The language of clothes is carefully coded as a result of thousands of years of social, cultural and religious lore, and the unspoken rituals that dictate what we choose to wear.
According to university lore, the pasture was where students grazed their horses in the late 19th century; a standing university rule dictates that the president, or "prexy," has sole rights to the area for livestock grazing.
