ritual
Example Sentences
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"Like Valentine's Day, the proposal has become a ritual shaped by an industry," said Florence Maillochon, a sociologist specialising in intimate relationships.
From Barron's
Auntie North and Glory seemed to have a morning ritual.
From Literature
The preferred ritual is to scream victory, hog the moment, call out the haters and mythologize group success as some kind of personal drama.
"We already have a lot of established rituals and traditions around death," she said.
From BBC
Ms. Goodman finds the right measure of sugar in this novel-in-stories depicting three generations of Rubinsteins, an East Coast Jewish-American clan tenuously bound by love, ritual and guilt trips.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
