Sentence examples for were a rite of from inspiring English sources

Leavitt tackles those young gay men who try to catch H.I.V. as though it were a rite of passage to the grown-up world; their deadly erotics, their impatience or nihilism, is a chilling subject.

Dr. John Bahcall, an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., said the results were a "rite of passage" for cosmology from philosophical uncertainty to precision.

Nightclubs – for many of us, for good or bad – were a rite of passage, a setting for myriad "life-shaping moments", in the words of Dave Haslam, a DJ and stalwart at the Haçienda in Manchester and author of Life After Dark: A History of British Nightclubs and Music Venues.

Was it the 34A or AA that was too big?," my mom yells from across the small, dimly lit family-owned department store whose bras were a rite of passage for local junior high girls.

It's a rite-of-passage, a proving ground.

It's a rite of passage, apparently.

That's a rite of passage.

Today, it's a rite of passage.

Prom is a rite of passage.

"Taking your first taxi is a rite of passage".

I believe what I experienced is a rite of passage.