7 sentences with 'custom'
Example sentences and phrases with the word custom and other words derived from it.
• « This old custom of using crystals for therapeutic purposes was revived with great force in the mid-1980s in the United States. Since then, a certain type of stone has been used for each condition. »
• « The pleasure-loving Romans quickly adopted the Greek custom of using water as a therapy. They built large public and private baths to relax, cure and prevent illness. »
• « The French scholar François Poulain de la Barre (1647-1725) concluded that empirical observation showed that the custom of male domination in European society was just that: a custom. »
• « At the same time, social orders were sharply divided, not only by wealth, but also by law and custom. This set of divisions was summed up in the system of "Estates" in France, the social descendants of the divisions between "those who pray, those who fight and those who work" in the Middle Ages. »
• « A whole system of status symbols was maintained by both law and custom - to name but a few, only members of the aristocracy could wear masks at masked balls, nobles led processions in towns and had special places to sit in operas and churches alike, and only nobles could carry swords in times of peace. »
• « Regarding marriage as an antiquated custom, Fourier imagined that in his social groups children would be raised in common instead of being dominated by their parents. »
• « The members of the jury chose me immediately, breaking the custom of not revealing the names of the finalists until the next day. »