Sentences with 'rite'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rite and other words derived from it.
• « What was the function of this artwork? Everything suggests that these terracotta statues replaced the living beings that were buried according to a cruel rite practised in China before Emperor Shih-huang-ti. »
• « The lack of heads on the figures suggests that they were women because they would not have represented a headless deity; perhaps they were girls performing a dance or a rite for the gods. »
• « The Court Scene, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony is an example of a painting that depicted indigenous people. Scholars have long questioned the accuracy of this depiction of a rite of passage among the Mandan people. »