Sentence examples for strange practice from inspiring English sources

IN Mexico, there is a strange practice known as the "art of renting".

Steve Carlton's icy silence and strange practice rituals made him an Age of Aquarius enigma — Brian Wilson with a hard slider — before his second career as an alleged conspiracy theorist.

I didn't take a gap year, but I have heard plenty of stories about doing something reckless in search of a rush, and New Zealand caters to such whims in all sorts of ways, from skydiving to bungee jumping to that strange practice of mimicking a giant gerbil in a plastic ball, called "zorbing".

While it is interesting to see how these artists respond when confronted with the content limitations of radio, re-rapping songs is a strange practice that supporters of artistic freedom might compare to painting clothes on nudes before they can be displayed in a museum where children might see them.

Over the last couple of weeks, reports from the New York Times, Vulture, and Music Business Worldwide have brought to light a strange practice at Spotify.

That's the "common sense" message Canada's public safety minister has been delivering to media on both sides of the border this week, after VICE brought the strange practice to light last month.

There are many strange practices described in this book (in a discontinued practice of one tribe, widows insisted on being strangled just after their husbands passed away).

Ms Ashenburg's tale ends with the strange practices of Westerners who douche, depilate and deodorise; who smell like pomegranate, peppermint or even pine needles but never, ever, like living people.

At the annual meeting, Henny de Ruiter, chairman of Ahold's supervisory board, said that "promotional allowances" had been at the heart of the fraud.None of this is likely to make much sense to anyone unfamiliar with the strange practices used by the world's big retailers to cut the prices they pay to their suppliers.

Religion boasts some strange practices; in our world among the strangest is the Jewish practice of dwelling in makeshift huts for a week during the festival of sukkot, beginning Monday night.

Members of the Society of Teachers of Speech and Drama have been aware of the strange imitative practice of "upspeak" for some time.