Sentence examples for the custom of taking from inspiring English sources

At 4, they will help dismantle the altar, following the custom of taking their contributions home.

The members instituted the custom of taking the flowers they received at their coming-out parties, to the hospitals.

The human custom of taking a large percentage of the prey population and targeting the largest individuals--as with cod fishing--favors small individuals that breed before reaching trophy size, says Darimont.

But he complied with the local custom of taking care of kith and kin by making one brother head of the state security service and another ambassador to Germany.

When I started college in the city where he lived, he began a custom of taking me out to dinner every other Sunday evening.

She gave her children the Shields name, which may have hinted at their paternity or simply been the custom of former slaves taking their master's surnames.

The custom of the king taking his meals alone is widespread.

With Elizabeth's accession, it seemed probable that the royal house would bear her husband's name, becoming the House of Mountbatten, in line with the custom of a wife taking her husband's surname on marriage.

A cart went from broad Street to West End every day and it was the custom to take out a large bottle of the water from the pump in Broad Street, as she preferred it.

By Charles E. Martin and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, August 29 , 1942P. 9 It used to be the custom of the police to take all confiscated weapons down the bay and throw them away.

Davidson comments that "this sounds like a ritual taking over of land rather than a legal requirement, like the custom of men lighting fires when taking new land, and it is possible that the women's custom was linked with the fertility goddess".