Sentence examples for ritual week from inspiring English sources

Harriet let out a small sigh, and we got busy with all the things that come after someone says it out loud: the phone calls; the arrangements; the death notice; the food for shiva, the ritual week of mourning.

On Sunday night, deprived of my ritual week-ahead review, I had nothing to worry about except what I didn't know I should be worrying about.

Dinnertime: I engage in a regular Friday ritual, 67 weeks running, minus a few weeks here and there: dinner with Todd (my boss) and Isaac (our friend, Cornelia Street neighbor and colleague at New York Fun Tours).

Band camp is an annual ritual, two weeks of intense daily practice to prepare for the new season.

The pledger was instructed by a priest or ritual specialist; weeks or even months were needed for spiritual preparation and to gather the food, gifts, and other materials the pledger and his family were expected to provide.

The ritual begins weeks in advance with the frantic purchase of gifts on streets like Broadway or West 207th Street in Upper Manhattan, the heart of New York's Dominican community.

The Use of Force It is the strangest of bureaucratic rituals: Every week or so, more than 100 members of the government's sprawling national security apparatus gather, by secure video teleconference, to pore over terrorist suspects' biographies and recommend to the president who should be the next to die.

We performed this strange ritual once a week.

The promenading of celebrities is part and parcel of the fashion week ritual.

A visit to Repetto in Paris to buy their chic leather ballet pumps became a Paris fashion week ritual.

THE NBC EXECUTIVE SUITE -- The ritual called upfront week is not exactly when a network wants its dirty laundry aired.