Sentence examples for were customary from inspiring English sources
adjective
Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
The Rev. Ricardo Guzmán, the pastor of Jehovah Shalom, said collections were customary at any service.
Expensive gifts to friends were customary, including gold cufflinks "worth thousands of dollars," and sets of fountain pens, he said.
Body hair was on its way out Women's uniforms had shorter skirts than were customary in 1914 – they were now at six to 10 inches off the ground.
He was summoned in 1669 to deliver the funeral orations that were customary after the death of an important national figure.
In pre-Victorian times, breeches — the ancestor of shorts, tight pants that ended just below the knee — were customary formal wear.
Indeed, such insertions of musical pieces in or after Shakespeare's plays were customary in the 18th century: George Frideric Handel's pastoral Acis and Galatea, for example, was performed at Drury Lane in 1724 as an afterpiece for The Tempest.
(Commercial yeasts are customary).
The arrangement is customary in commercial finance.
For women, light suits are customary.
