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  • The kite-fighting tournament was an old winter tradition in Afghanistan.   (source)
    tradition = long-established practice
  • My life as a human was a glamorous one, although my parents, traditional sorts, would not have approved.   (source)
    traditional = inclined to think and behave in ways that are long-established
  • I had called him on the Night of the Broken Trophies, so per tradition it was his turn to call.   (source)
    tradition = long-established practice
  • They wore matching suits of traditional samurai armor, and each had both a short wakizashi and a longer katana strapped to his belt.   (source)
    traditional = previously long-established
  • Stealing the swords of opposing teams is a time-honored tradition of fencing.   (source)
    tradition = custom
  • It was such a beauty that Dad declared the time had come to revive the tradition of naming our cars.   (source)
    tradition = long-established practice
  • Hiking up the mountain became a father-son tradition; they climbed Old Rag almost every year thereafter.   (source)
    tradition = established as something done regularly
  • Louie won so many wristwatches, the traditional laurel of track, that he began handing them out all over town.   (source)
    traditional = customary
  • He should respect tradition.   (source)
    tradition = practices passed down through generations
  • The fact that she had not grown up in Spokane County but in the Delta made her even more suspect, and the more traditional thinkers like Miss Crocker were wary of her.   (source)
    traditional = old-fashioned (not welcoming change)
  • Indignant and courageous Spaniards of every class had rallied to defend tradition and civil order, and the world would look on with anxiety as to the outcome.   (source)
    tradition = customs (practices passed down through generations)
  • This joke was part of the tradition as well.   (source)
    tradition = long-established practice
  • I hold my hand out for quarters. Another Lara Jean-and-Josh tradition. Josh always gives me quarters for the jukebox.   (source)
    tradition = something typically done
  • Waiting until sixteen was just a stupid old tradition.   (source)
    tradition = long-established practice
  • "Since you are supposed to be helping me, being my friend and all," he continued with a pointed look at me, "perhaps we shouldn't be relying on the traditional notes sent through maids and formal invitations for dates."   (source)
    traditional = relating to how something is typically done
  • Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South, as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land, yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law, and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine.   (source)
    tradition = long-established practice
  • Nevertheless, the northern European tradition of work, play, and food right through the day, made it possible for them to adjust themselves wholly to this new rhythm.   (source)
  • Scrabble used to be another Saturday night tradition — Mom and Dad versus Dex and Jeremy.   (source)
    tradition = something typically done
  • The night before, we had the traditional Friday evening meal.   (source)
    traditional = long-established (having been done for a long time)
  • Centuries later, this tradition reemerged in the laws of the Jews under Moses, and became a well-known part of the Bible.   (source)
    tradition = a practice passed down through generations
  • For one thing, they used computers constantly, a practice traditional mathematicians frowned on.†   (source)
    traditional = relating to practice or belief that is long-established or was previously long-established  OR  relating to stories passed down through generations
  • It is the practice in all Harrison schools that during morning exercises the national anthem is played, part of our program in support of traditional American values.†   (source)
  • And these were just the most memorable highlights of a chaotic and sloppily lived life, one he would have happily traded long ago for something more traditional.†   (source)
  • The tradition — the unspoken tradition: somehow you knew it, though you never heard it said-was that they shot you from behind; always in the back of the head, without warning, as you walked down a corridor from cell to cell.   (source)
    tradition = long-established practice
  • It is a family tradition.   (source)
  • Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box.   (source)
  • The tributes from 1, 2, and 4 traditionally have this look about them.†   (source)
  • It's difficult to separate Iranians from their tradition of endlessly hugging and kissing on both cheeks.†   (source)
  • This was different from the traditional view that the radiation frequency lowered gradually as energy passed from the core outwards.†   (source)
  • Then he explained the threat that pencils and pads posed to the Boyarsky's tradition of romantic elegance.†   (source)
  • I knew that he was a good man, a little quiet, a devout Christian from a very strict religious tradition.†   (source)
  • The Blumenthals and the Fischs sang traditional songs, exchanged smiles, and offered each other support with only a few words.†   (source)
  • According to camp tradition, we wore laurel wreaths to a big feast prepared in our honor, then led a procession down to the bonfire, where we got to burn the burial shrouds our cabins had made for us in our absence.†   (source)
  • The people I passed would look me up and down, and I would look back, give the traditional head nod, and then go back to practicing my crossover dribble.†   (source)
  • Some Dauntless must volunteer to do jobs that traditionally belong to other factions.†   (source)
  • The figure in question for me was an older sister of Mother's, of a more traditional mind, who brought me to a temple when I was a small baby.†   (source)
  • He knew the local customs, values, and traditions well and had put them to good use in the courtroom.†   (source)
  • But then as the temperatures rose, the castle car parks would become studded with vehicles, the local pubs would chalk up an increase in requests for a ploughman's lunch, and, within a few sunny Sundays, we had morphed again from being a sleepy market town into a traditional English tourist destination.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci had always been an awkward subject for historians, especially in the Christian tradition.†   (source)
  • Whoever started this stupid tradition ought to be crammed into a basket and tossed downstream without a serving spoon.†   (source)
  • "I've heard it's some sort of a tradition round here to decorate this old Styrofoam snowman," Mrs. Shannon continues.†   (source)
  • Harry, Ron, and Hermione turned and saw the gigantic outline of Hagrid at the other end of the platform, beckoning the terrified-looking new students forward for their traditional journey across the lake.†   (source)
  • Now, it's some tradition.†   (source)
  • "It is," said the fat man, "a tradition."†   (source)
  • She was tall and brown and was the best traditional powwow dancer on the rez.†   (source)
  • Return to traditional values or reject tradition as useless?†   (source)
  • Yes, with each sandstorm comes the inevitable Cleaning of the Solar Cells, a time-honored tradition among hearty Martians such as myself.†   (source)
  • Tradition has it that if you listen closely on quiet nights you can still hear the laughter and the shattering of crystal glasses.†   (source)
  • The next day, at noon traditionally, the Japanese began picking raspberries.†   (source)
  • She moved closer and she saw that the book was from the Bakersfield public library and it was called Understanding Vietnamese Customs and Traditions.†   (source)
  • In other words, all the information the government traditionally wants when you register to vote.†   (source)
  • It's a tradition in Tangerine.†   (source)
  • You seek out the traditional, the natural and the cosmopolitan.†   (source)
  • They had taken her right breast, the muscles on the right side of her chest, and the lymph glands under her right arm, a traditional radical mastectomy.†   (source)
  • Traditionally, purple has always stood for the aristocracy, since for hundreds of years peasants weren't allowed to dye their clothes with indigo, and therefore couldn't make violet.†   (source)
  • And let me tell you, homeschooling is no way easier than your traditional classroom.†   (source)
  • The Kahn party was a legendary Rosewood tradition.†   (source)
  • Hester's damage to the rose garden was surely of the stature of a tradition; her absence, and Owen's, seemed ominous to me.†   (source)
  • I walked away toward a quilt that seemed not exotic but different, among the traditional Mennonite pieces.†   (source)
  • But that didn't stop the old man and the boy from joining the ten thousand who thronged to the stadium on the boulevard to see the traditional high school football game.†   (source)
  • What a foolish tradition.†   (source)
  • The reason I couldn't quit was that working at Smart Aid as your first job had long been a hallowed family tradition.†   (source)
  • The khal's bloodriders offered her the traditional three weapons, and splendid weapons they were.†   (source)
  • In the afternoon Mr. Patch-Withers, who was substitute Headmaster for the summer, offered the traditional term tea to the Upper Middle class.†   (source)
  • Tramy and Shade kept up the tradition when they went.†   (source)
  • It was the dead man's sixteen-year-old son, who with his brothers and half-brothers had been dancing the traditional farewell to their father.†   (source)
  • The minister before Hegbert-don't ask me what his name was-took sort of a lax view about school dances as long as they were chaperoned, and because of that, they'd become a tradition of sorts.†   (source)
  • She cooked magic in the ancient tradition to try to cure her mother this one last time.†   (source)
  • They are an extraordinary invention, you see, and part of the great tradition.†   (source)
  • It's a tradition.†   (source)
  • During the last week in October, it was tradition at Mother's house for the boys to carve designs on pumpkins.†   (source)
  • Her father-in-law's intention, she supposed, was to create an ambience of solidity and family tradition.†   (source)
  • They eat traditional foods, following customs that haven't changed for hundreds of years.†   (source)
  • On New Year's Eve, after a feast of turkey, sausage, salami and pudding, the children got ready to play the traditional game of predicting the future.†   (source)
  • For generations, not a single person in my family has ever questioned this tradition, and no daughter of mine is going to be the one to start.†   (source)
  • His call for "perpetual revolution" mobilized young people into Red Guards who would wage class war against remnants of traditional society, both native and foreign.†   (source)
  • Kai's clothing blended old and new traditions.†   (source)
  • As a reformist movement that never overtly questioned the traditional values of a caste-ridden, extremely traditional community.†   (source)
  • The reason he said green was that green was the traditional space livery of the Betelgeuse trading scouts.†   (source)
  • It's a traditional Danish Christmas dessert, Eleanor thought.†   (source)
  • It was a traditional enough room — dark oak and floor-to-ceiling shelving — but Artemis had jammed it with the latest computer technology.†   (source)
  • Since I was the youngest grandson, I had the nerve-racking honor of asking the four questions traditional to the holiday service.†   (source)
  • But I think it is not bad to hold to some of the traditions, like the groom's wedding fast.†   (source)
  • New tradition.†   (source)
  • Apparently the red carnations from her spouse are a family tradition.†   (source)
  • It was when all the rules by which the traditional economy had functioned were broken and remade.†   (source)
  • Throughout Latin America, even in traditional societies such as Mexico, where most legal and illegal migrants to the United States come from, divorce and separation are increasingly common.†   (source)
  • In a funny way, Dad was always a bow-tie wearer, always a little more traditional than you might imagine.†   (source)
  • You know, Amy is a traditionalist about these things—†   (source)
  • A legacy of tradition and heroism that stretched back to antiquity had fallen upon him.†   (source)
  • In the village of My Khe, as in all of Quang Ngai, patriotic resistance had the force of tradition, which was partly the force of legend, and from his earliest boyhood the man I killed would have listened to stories about the heroic Trung sisters and Tran Hung Dao's famous rout of the Mongols and Le Loi's final victory against the Chinese at Tot Dong.†   (source)
  • Tio Kiko knew a little of the Mexican healing arts, the use of herbs and incantations from old Indian traditions used to treat most ailments.†   (source)
  • The first meal was a Phillips family tradition: flank steak, marinated in Uncle Joe's secret sauce.†   (source)
  • He wore traditional cotton clothes with intricate designs on the collar made of yellow and brown thread, zigzagged vertically across his chest.†   (source)
  • Apparently, it had never occurred to Rufus to break that tradition.†   (source)
  • One of the clones offered the Consul the traditional post-thaw glass of orange juice.†   (source)
  • Performance poetry resembles traditional poetry, but with an added element: the actual performance.†   (source)
  • Encanis was out there too, in the traditional black mask, making more serious trouble.†   (source)
  • It's very old-fashioned, and even Mameha, who was as traditional a geisha as you would find, preferred something more Western.†   (source)
  • Because everyone knows how horribly the infection of anti-Semitism traditionally raged among 'the Poles', but few know that at the same time no other nation hid so many Jews from the Nazis.†   (source)
  • I could feel a tradition in the making.†   (source)
  • It's a fine tradition.†   (source)
  • She kept the religious traditions of a Jewish housewife and was loyal to her husband, but Tateh had absolutely no love for her.†   (source)
  • My colleague Don Marinelli had started an awesome tradition of taking students on a trip out west every year, so they could check out entertainment and high-tech companies that might give them a start in the world of computer graphics.†   (source)
  • Ezra Pound borrows from Greek, Latin, Chinese, English, Italian, and French poetic traditions in the Cantos.†   (source)
  • Mr. Moon explained that the sousaphone was a traditional instrument in African-American bands, but Nathaniel wasn't persuaded.†   (source)
  • It is traditional, the goddess continued.†   (source)
  • Amma's little Halloween tradition.†   (source)
  • By traditional architectural standards the challenge seemed an impossible one.†   (source)
  • In keeping with tradition, I was to have Christmas Day free from work.†   (source)
  • I knew it would be the biggest kick in the nuts—like a mini BUD/S Training—but it had the longest tradition, the most prestige, and, more important, the best reputation in the world.†   (source)
  • He is a respected nganga, a priest of the traditions, you might say.†   (source)
  • The traditional Overlook.†   (source)
  • While this laver of nativeness was not vast in proportion to the rest, it had vast importance, for society had been shaped in reaction to it, and unspeakable violence had occurred in relation to it, and yet it endured, fertile, a stratum of soil that perhaps made possible all future transplanted soils, and to which Saeed in particular was attracted, since at a place of worship where he had gone one Friday the communal prayer was led by a man who came from this tradition and spoke of this tradition, and Saeed had found, in the weeks he and Nadia had been in Marin, this man's words to be full of soul-soothing wisdom.†   (source)
  • It was a family tradition that Mama and Grandma would review our Lenten commitment as we shopped the trunks.†   (source)
  • We had a tradition each year where seniors would try and put incoming freshmen on the panther as a hazing ritual.†   (source)
  • The Sophists had one characteristic in common with the natural philosophers: they were critical of the traditional mythology.†   (source)
  • But Pleasants hadn't carried on the family's antislavery tradition.†   (source)
  • They were superstitious and had their own secrets and traditions.†   (source)
  • It was a Briarcrest tradition for every senior to have his baby picture in the annual.†   (source)
  • It was traditional navy coffee, brewed strong, with a pinch of salt.†   (source)
  • I thought about this: My biggest traditional contribution was usually lighting the grill.†   (source)
  • It wasn't easy to obtain permission for Na-na's traditional burial, however, since this was now considered an old, unhealthy tradition.†   (source)
  • Very southern, traditional, one of the Apartheid Burbclaves.†   (source)
  • Finally she decided to resort to more traditional techniques.†   (source)
  • That World War I English poet and serving soldier Rupert Brooke understood the Brits do not traditionally bring home their war dead.†   (source)
  • Her family's social status created additional pressure for her to follow a more traditional path.†   (source)
  • And while I was a horrible student in the traditionally academic subjects, I excelled in fifth-grade science.†   (source)
  • Hopefully, one day they will pass this new tradition of ours to their own families.†   (source)
  • His family was very traditional Mexican, where the men were expected to take care of the animals and the cars, and the women were expected to cook and clean and take care of the kids.†   (source)
  • To the delight of the crowd, the conductor led his orchestra in "Hail to the Chief," the traditional musical accompaniment to the entrance of the president.†   (source)
  • There would be no traditional nine-night wake: the doors were closed after the funeral and did not open again except for visits from intimate friends.†   (source)
  • It was a tradition which my father's father introduced and which generally turned into pretty detestable affairs.†   (source)
  • This one will be a Luna, the old man said, he will be a farmer and keep our customs and traditions.†   (source)
  • We spend the rest of the morning baking my traditional birthday cake of vanilla sponge with vanilla cream frosting.†   (source)
  • I felt part of a great tradition.†   (source)
  • People say you'll miss out on things by being homeschooled, like the prom and other traditional activities that you experience in an institutional school setting.†   (source)
  • It is the best thing I have eaten since the traditional dinner at Winter Holiday, months ago.†   (source)
  • And he uses the nice old word so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.†   (source)
  • Dressed in his traditional black, angular as a hawk, he cuts a fearsome, dangerous profile.†   (source)
  • It must be some Dominican tradition or something.†   (source)
  • It would be anti-tradition.†   (source)
  • We shared traditions and a way of looking at the world.†   (source)
  • Another traditional miners' vacation spot was Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.†   (source)
  • I didn't qualify for his help, not in the traditional way.†   (source)
  • A complete break with the traditions of this country.†   (source)
  • I thought that when tradition becomes too flexible, irony enters the voice.†   (source)
  • It's our tradition on Fridays.†   (source)
  • I also drew costumes of the samurai tradition of Japan, where we'd gone with Mr. McElroy after we left China.†   (source)
  • It was a tradition Tom's father had begun and one of many Frank kept going.†   (source)
  • You can make a lot more money as a maid in a traditional Japanese inn-get lots of tips-but you have to meet people and talk to them.†   (source)
  • It didn't feel like a traditional museum, where objects are coolly numbered, catalogued, and described.†   (source)
  • The eagle's head is traditionally held high, but on the Trident, its head is lowered, signifying that a true warrior's strength comes from humility.†   (source)
  • She has sat back quietly, hoping she has learned, at last, to let the mighty wave of tradition roll on through her life and break on some other female shore.†   (source)
  • His family gave him a traditional Zande funeral and left his body under a mound of stones in a clearing of elephant grass.†   (source)
  • Since Meena didn't cross a border, she wasn't trafficked in the traditional sense.†   (source)
  • I want it to be something that becomes a tradition with the school.†   (source)
  • Even though we're pochos, we definitely keep our traditions and culture close.†   (source)
  • Missing coffee, brewed traditionally, that's what sustained her through the day, and what she needed right now.†   (source)
  • Traditionally it took an exceptionally talented thief to bring away the stone, and that's why you've been invited to grace our party.†   (source)
  • In the tradition, people brought flowers and wine.†   (source)
  • Morgenstern uses the device, mainly, because what hes really interested in, as always, is the satiric antiroyalty stuff and how stupid they were going through with all these old traditions, kissing the sacred ring of Great-grandfather So-and-So, etc. There is some action stuff which I cut, which I never did anywhere else, and here's my logic: Inigo and Fezzik have to go through a certain amount of derring-do in order to come up with the proper ingredients for the resurrection pill, stuff like Inigo finding some frog dust whil†   (source)
  • "You must excuse my gruff conduct," the watchdog said, after they'd been driving for sonic time, "hut you see its traditional for watchdogs to be ferocious..."†   (source)
  • Cedric chuckles at this, appreciating any story showing that, sexually speaking, his clock ticks in the traditional fashion.†   (source)
  • It must have hurt her never to be able to raise you with any of our traditions.†   (source)
  • THE DUENA ALFONSA was both grandaunt and godmother to the girl and her life at the hacienda invested it with oldworld ties and with antiquity and tradition.†   (source)
  • It was Pea Eye's traditional job to watch the rear.†   (source)
  • Although their poverty was traditional and stultifying, it was not unique.†   (source)
  • Perfect for a football game, the traditional game between Castle and Rushing Academy.†   (source)
  • And I'm afraid we are witnessing the sunset of EST. Our dear head nurse is one of the few with the heart to stand up for a grand old Faulknerian tradition in the treatment of the rejects of sanity: Brain Burning.†   (source)
  • The Rumpelstiltskin Problem is a book by Vivian Vande Velde, conceived because the author was disturbed, as I was, by inconsistencies in a traditional tale.†   (source)
  • A BOOM OF CANNON saluted His Majesty's arrival at Westminster, and with the traditional welcoming formalities performed, the King assumed his place on the throne at the head of the House of Lords, flanked by the peers in their crimson robes.†   (source)
  • She tears it slightly, and I know from watching my friends that I'm supposed to give her a small tip for this useless tradition.†   (source)
  • In point of fact, the French doctor displayed a finely honed aesthetic sensibility: the phrases President Carter, our traditional values, the barbarity of Communism all belong to the vocabulary ofAmerican kitsch and have nothing to do with the kitsch of the Grand March.†   (source)
  • Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Cullinan kept up the tradition of her wealthy parents.†   (source)
  • He was mounted on a traditional Haitian saddle, made of straw, designed, it would seem, to abrade the backs of donkeys and ponies until they bled.†   (source)
  • In the United States, gangs have traditionally been a sort of halfway house for recent immigrants.†   (source)
  • You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions.†   (source)
  • And because it was a warm April in the north Georgia mountains and because it was tradition—some say superstition—my grandfather bundled the baby up and carried her once around the house.†   (source)
  • What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?†   (source)
  • Those were the big, traditional two.†   (source)
  • According to his records, Shay Bourne was raised in foster homes, so he can't claim that he was reared in one religious tradition that fostered organ donation.†   (source)
  • Despite his mother's disappearance over two years ago, Max and his father continued the tradition.†   (source)
  • I thought it was a crazy tradition, but I did not want to offend anyone, so I agreed reluctantly.†   (source)
  • You, Captain, will of course receive enhanced payments as befits your rank and, since we understand your plan is to retire shortly, the Crown will certainly wish to show its gratitude in the traditional way.†   (source)
  • "We have a tradition here at Spence," Felicity says.†   (source)
  • This year I would not be ferrying back and forth between Larry's family's seder and my own Easter traditions.†   (source)
  • KATHY AND JAMES VOSKUHL were having their first dance — and to break with tradition, it was a rocker.†   (source)
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