Sentence examples for peculiar customs from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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

CRICKET, boarding-house names reminiscent of Harry Potter's Hogwarts and ancient and peculiar customs are among the hallmarks of Britain's leading private schools.

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.

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

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.

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.