Sentence examples for strange custom from inspiring English sources

Another strange custom was that of calling new teachers by the names of their predecessors.

MORE CULINARY MATTERS Please note the strange custom of the doggy-bag.

Today, I also make Raggedy Ann and Andy, do other crafts, and fill any strange, custom requests for particular kinds of doll clothes or other children's toys".

Sure enough, it contained the body of their relative, exhumed and waiting for collection.Parts of rural China are seeing a burgeoning market for female corpses, the result of the reappearance of a strange custom called "ghost marriages".

To that end, he has been concentrating on the strange custom known as the Iowa straw poll, scheduled for Aug. 11 in Ames, in which a campaign puts up $30 for each of the tickets that go to the attendees who do the voting.

This problem's global.' One heavyset fellow, a face like a potpie, his suit full of strange custom seams to hide his girth, mistook me for a priest and made me kneel with him while he prayed from a card he carried inside his wallet.

It was clearly part of the new China, galloping into the future, assimilating some strange foreign customs.

Strange customs in Australia, and language.

She then gives us crash course on Cherbourg and on its strange customs – the locals never stop singing.

Harry Kondoleon arrived on this planet in 1955 and started observing its inhabitants and their strange customs shortly thereafter.

Should a hippo be allowed to wallow, as she would do natively, or must she partake of the strange customs of her new environment?