Sentence examples for widespread custom from inspiring English sources

Her husband, meanwhile, lectured and campaigned against the widespread custom of wet-nursing.

A widespread custom going back into early human history, cannibalism has been found among peoples on most continents.

It is a widespread custom to start with a piece of apple dipped in honey while a prayer is said asking God for a sweet year.

"The pleadings suggest a widespread custom or failure to train," wrote Judge Berman, who added that he was not yet ruling on the truth of the plaintiffs' allegations.

These objects are all connected with fertility; the mixing of all manner of magical things with seeds to make them sprout better is a widespread custom.

In a ruling in January allowing the case to go forward, Judge Berman wrote, "The pleadings suggest a widespread custom or failure to train".

Handshaking, for example, is a widespread Turkish custom, and most women follow it.

But the byline had been established and would eventually become a widespread newspaper custom.

Nicholas's miracles were a favourite subject for medieval artists and liturgical plays, and his traditional feast day was the occasion for the ceremonies of the Boy Bishop, a widespread European custom in which a boy was elected bishop and reigned until Holy Innocents' Day (December 28).

Another widespread funerary custom has been the funeral banquet, which might be held in the presence of the corpse before burial or in the tomb-chapel (in ancient Rome) or on the return of the mourners to the home of the deceased.

In the Philippines and Thailand, betel chewing was once a widespread cultural custom.