Sentence examples for peculiar custom from inspiring English sources

But over time what seemed to many people like a harmless -- if peculiar -- custom has taken on a more sinister tone.

The most famous – and admittedly peculiar – custom that has developed around Yom Kippur involves swinging a chicken over your head three times to absolve yourself of sin.

A unique and peculiar custom dictated that this priest be a runaway slave and that he slay his predecessor in combat.

But Finland's peculiar custom of early music training where even babies and toddlers learn core music skills through songs and games, may also influence the fluency of foreign-language speaking Finns.

The Japanese have a peculiar custom when saying goodbye: it's polite for them to stand rooted to the spot, watching you vanish into the distance until you're a dot on the horizon.

In one of the more involving chapters, the children try to walk on mud in peculiar custom-built footwear - 'splatchers' - a bit like wooden tea trays with straps.

Half a century later, it's an amusing look at the peculiar customs of a misguided era.

Hollywood hates party crashers and, like the British upper class, has peculiar customs that preclude success by the uninitiated.

Adeney likes to portray himself as an outsider, an accidental anthropologist in a land with peculiar customs and values.

Cheryl Glickman, the narrator of Miranda July's strenuously quirky first novel, is a peculiar woman of peculiar habits who works at a business with peculiar customs.

Ever since, he has been giving himself crash courses on the arts in American life and the peculiar customs of the nation's capital.