Sentence examples for traditional rite from inspiring English sources

Spending a gap year in Australia is a traditional rite of passage for many.

Are you, as your child approaches her driving years, trying to decide how to handle this traditional rite of passage?

As we enter the Six Nations season, that traditional rite of passage, warning bells should be sounding.

"The Tiki Cup started in 1940 as a traditional rite of passage," said Greg Murtha, marketing director of Sugar Bowl.

An old wooden bellows, the heart of the forge where agricultural tools were made, recalls a traditional rite of village life.

The 4,000 students returned to their barracks to prepare for a silent midnight vigil, the Point's traditional rite to mark the death of one of its own.

Traditional rites, such as the jumbie dance, a manifestation of folk religion, had nearly disappeared by the late 20th century.

The ceremony, which included elements of Christianity, was conducted by a group of women, leading prayers and taking the couple through traditional rites.

There were not enough priests to perform the traditional rites (plenty died along with the laymen), and many refused to attend to plague victims anyway.

"Boyhood" supposedly will differ from traditional rites of passage narratives and viewers can judge for themselves when it appears late in the year.2.

Each year at 10 a.m. on his birthday, January 6, the maroons meet at the Kindah Tree to renew their traditional rites and to honour their ancestors.