Sentence examples for quaint custom from inspiring English sources

Paula and I looked at each other; we had never before observed this quaint custom.

Did Natasha not understand that when a guy cooks dinner for you, there is this quaint custom called punctuality?

Philipp Kohlschreiber, who lives locally and cycled to all his matches, added to that rather quaint custom on the red clay of Kitzbühel by beating the French qualifier Paul-Henri Mathieu in three sets to win the Generali Open.

Or, aware of both this and my quaint custom of barring those who have not successfully completed the assignment from the classroom, one might retort 'He said he doesn't want to meet next week'.

In their worldview Obama is not president, and majority rule is a quaint custom that only carries weight when a majority actually shares your point of view.

Indeed, Ottery is fond of its quaint customs.

He'd probably find a traditional nuclear family, and take photos of their quaint customs.

It refers not just to a few quaint customs rooted in a bygone age, but to much of what Iranians live by today.

He is lionized by the foreign politicians who pass through Whitehall and held up as a model by most of continental Europe's leaders, who have traditionally gazed across the channel with little interest in adopting the quaint customs of the people who live there.

The absolute last think you want to do is come off as that clueless American that is just so in love with these fancy, quaint customs that he didn't even notice the wool being pulled over his eyes.

I thought it was a quaint, forgotten custom, but it turned out some people still took it totally seriously," she says.