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  • 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
  • The kite-fighting tournament was an old winter tradition in Afghanistan.   (source)
  • It was such a beauty that Dad declared the time had come to revive the tradition of naming our cars.   (source)
  • Stealing the swords of opposing teams is a time-honored tradition of fencing.   (source)
    tradition = custom
  • Louie won so many wristwatches, the traditional laurel of track, that he began handing them out all over town.   (source)
    traditional = customary
  • Hiking up the mountain became a father-son tradition; they climbed Old Rag almost every year thereafter.   (source)
    tradition = established as something done regularly
  • 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)
  • clumsily hinged boxes carved by "traditional craftsmen"   (source)
    traditional = old-fashioned
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • It is a family tradition.   (source)
  • The tributes from 1, 2, and 4 traditionally have this look about them.†   (source)
  • Iranians in America have had to tweak this tradition a bit.†   (source)
  • The old man used to be a hunter and also gathered some herbs for traditional medicine.†   (source)
  • But Andrey was neither a pianist nor a puppeteer—or at least not in the traditional sense.†   (source)
  • Most of this tradition was far from child appropriate.†   (source)
  • The Blumenthals and the Fischs sang traditional songs, exchanged smiles, and offered each other support with only a few words.†   (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)
  • They wore matching suits of traditional samurai armor, and each had both a short wakizashi and a longer katana strapped to his belt.†   (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)
  • "I've heard it's some sort of a tradition round here to decorate this old Styrofoam snowman," Mrs. Shannon continues.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci had always been an awkward subject for historians, especially in the Christian tradition.†   (source)
  • He knew the local customs, values, and traditions well and had put them to good use in the courtroom.†   (source)
  • There's traditionally been a lot of rivalry between all the magic schools.†   (source)
  • "It is," said the fat man, "a tradition."†   (source)
  • Some Dauntless must volunteer to do jobs that traditionally belong to other factions.†   (source)
  • Now, it's some tradition.†   (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)
  • They are an extraordinary invention, you see, and part of the great tradition.†   (source)
  • It's a tradition that has helped support the school since it was founded.†   (source)
  • You seek out the traditional, the natural and the cosmopolitan.†   (source)
  • Christ Church was Savannah's oldest and most tradition-bound house of worship.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • For one thing, they used computers constantly, a practice traditional mathematicians frowned on.†   (source)
  • Since I was the youngest grandson, I had the nerve-racking honor of asking the four questions traditional to the holiday service.†   (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)
  • What a foolish tradition.†   (source)
  • He wore traditional cotton clothes with intricate designs on the collar made of yellow and brown thread, zigzagged vertically across his chest.†   (source)
  • It's a tradition.†   (source)
  • In the Protestant tradition, we turn to the Bible; when we want an answer, that's where we look.†   (source)
  • He did trash some traditions, right from the beginning.†   (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)
  • "It's a tradition in Tangerine.†   (source)
  • I have forgotten about my past, about my traditions, and the way in which men of the desert expect women to behave.†   (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 the afternoon Mr. Patch-Withers, who was substitute Headmaster for the summer, offered the traditional term tea to the Upper Middle class.†   (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)
  • And let me tell you, homeschooling is no way easier than your traditional classroom.†   (source)
  • Her father-in-law's intention, she supposed, was to create an ambience of solidity and family tradition.†   (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)
  • Yes, with each sandstorm comes the inevitable Cleaning of the Solar Cells, a time-honored tradition among hearty Martians such as myself.†   (source)
  • She cooked magic in the ancient tradition to try to cure her mother this one last time.†   (source)
  • Tramy and Shade kept up the tradition when they went.†   (source)
  • The Kahn party was a legendary Rosewood tradition.†   (source)
  • We shared traditions and a way of looking at the world.†   (source)
  • Hopefully, one day they will pass this new tradition of ours to their own families.†   (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)
  • During the last week in October, it was tradition at Mother's house for the boys to carve designs on pumpkins.†   (source)
  • It's a fine tradition.†   (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)
  • It was when all the rules by which the traditional economy had functioned were broken and remade.†   (source)
  • The khal's bloodriders offered her the traditional three weapons, and splendid weapons they were.†   (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)
  • It's a traditional Danish Christmas dessert, Eleanor thought.†   (source)
  • Kai's clothing blended old and new traditions.†   (source)
  • Apparently, it had never occurred to Rufus to break that tradition.†   (source)
  • In keeping with tradition, I was to have Christmas Day free from work.†   (source)
  • But I think it is not bad to hold to some of the traditions, like the groom's wedding fast.†   (source)
  • But Pleasants hadn't carried on the family's antislavery tradition.†   (source)
  • The reason he said green was that green was the traditional space livery of the Betelgeuse trading scouts.†   (source)
  • Apparently the red carnations from her spouse are a family tradition.†   (source)
  • New tradition.†   (source)
  • They eat traditional foods, following customs that haven't changed for hundreds of years.†   (source)
  • Apparently it's a traditional English Christmas pudding.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I could go to his traditional spot next to the wall.†   (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)
  • The traditional Overlook.†   (source)
  • The house was decorated in that traditional beachy way: lots of bright-colored wicker furniture, lamps made with seashells, small statues of lighthouses above the mantel, pastel paintings of the coast.†   (source)
  • My mom and dad started the tradition when I missed my first Tiger Scout campout because I got sick.†   (source)
  • We shared many of the same family values traditional to all small-town Americans.†   (source)
  • A legacy of tradition and heroism that stretched back to antiquity had fallen upon him.†   (source)
  • We had a tradition each year where seniors would try and put incoming freshmen on the panther as a hazing ritual.†   (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)
  • He is a respected nganga, a priest of the traditions, you might say.†   (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)
  • One of the clones offered the Consul the traditional post-thaw glass of orange juice.†   (source)
  • I could feel a tradition in the making.†   (source)
  • It was a Briarcrest tradition for every senior to have his baby picture in the annual.†   (source)
  • That World War I English poet and serving soldier Rupert Brooke understood the Brits do not traditionally bring home their war dead.†   (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)
  • I thought about this: My biggest traditional contribution was usually lighting the grill.†   (source)
  • By traditional architectural standards the challenge seemed an impossible one.†   (source)
  • Ezra Pound borrows from Greek, Latin, Chinese, English, Italian, and French poetic traditions in the Cantos.†   (source)
  • In other words, all the information the government traditionally wants when you register to vote.†   (source)
  • I also drew costumes of the samurai tradition of Japan, where we'd gone with Mr. McElroy after we left China.†   (source)
  • Another traditional miners' vacation spot was Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.†   (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)
  • Very southern, traditional, one of the Apartheid Burbclaves.†   (source)
  • It didn't feel like a traditional museum, where objects are coolly numbered, catalogued, and described.†   (source)
  • In a funny way, Dad was always a bow-tie wearer, always a little more traditional than you might imagine.†   (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)
  • Dressed in his traditional black, angular as a hawk, he cuts a fearsome, dangerous profile.†   (source)
  • I thought that when tradition becomes too flexible, irony enters the voice.†   (source)
  • As a reformist movement that never overtly questioned the traditional values of a caste-ridden, extremely traditional community.†   (source)
  • It is traditional, the goddess continued.†   (source)
  • A complete break with the traditions of this country.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The first meal was a Phillips family tradition: flank steak, marinated in Uncle Joe's secret sauce.†   (source)
  • It is the best thing I have eaten since the traditional dinner at Winter Holiday, months ago.†   (source)
  • Encanis was out there too, in the traditional black mask, making more serious trouble.†   (source)
  • It is part of our general ongoing program of support for traditional American values.†   (source)
  • Mr. Moon explained that the sousaphone was a traditional instrument in African-American bands, but Nathaniel wasn't persuaded.†   (source)
  • You know, Amy is a traditionalist about these things—†   (source)
  • Not that traditional princess behavior was like Isabelle at all.†   (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)
  • And he uses the nice old word so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.†   (source)
  • And while I was a horrible student in the traditionally academic subjects, I excelled in fifth-grade science.†   (source)
  • Science isn't part of the Indian tradition.†   (source)
  • The next day, at noon traditionally, the Japanese began picking raspberries.†   (source)
  • The Sophists had one characteristic in common with the natural philosophers: they were critical of the traditional mythology.†   (source)
  • Although their poverty was traditional and stultifying, it was not unique.†   (source)
  • I felt part of a great tradition.†   (source)
  • …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)
  • "Isn't that one of your foolish traditions?"†   (source)
  • Those were the big, traditional two.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Cullinan kept up the tradition of her wealthy parents.†   (source)
  • In the tradition, people brought flowers and wine.†   (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)
  • It was a tradition which my father's father introduced and which generally turned into pretty detestable affairs.†   (source)
  • The hundred-year-old tradition ofanti-Orientalism on the west coast soon resurfaced, more vicious than ever.†   (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)
  • 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,…†   (source)
  • It would be anti-tradition.†   (source)
  • I thought it was a crazy tradition, but I did not want to offend anyone, so I agreed reluctantly.†   (source)
  • Even though we're pochos, we definitely keep our traditions and culture close.†   (source)
  • He was asserting his traditional prerogative as a chief and was challenging the authority of the magistrate.†   (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)
  • Martial tradition says a soldier who dies well dances among the stars, battling foes for all eternity.†   (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)
  • His family gave him a traditional Zande funeral and left his body under a mound of stones in a clearing of elephant grass.†   (source)
  • Her family's social status created additional pressure for her to follow a more traditional path.†   (source)
  • "I always think these traditional stories retain a lot of charm," said another of the rabbits, "especially when they're told in the real, old-fashioned spirit."†   (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)
  • It must be some Dominican tradition or something.†   (source)
  • I have a car, but standing around with the less fortunate who have to ride the buses is a time-honored tradition, not to mention an excellent way to check out who's hitting on who.†   (source)
  • It's our tradition on Fridays.†   (source)
  • I didn't qualify for his help, not in the traditional way.†   (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)
  • In the United States, gangs have traditionally been a sort of halfway house for recent immigrants.†   (source)
  • Perfect for a football game, the traditional game between Castle and Rushing Academy.†   (source)
  • This year I would not be ferrying back and forth between Larry's family's seder and my own Easter traditions.†   (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)
  • It was traditional navy coffee, brewed strong, with a pinch of salt.†   (source)
  • It was Pea Eye's traditional job to watch the rear.†   (source)
  • Since Meena didn't cross a border, she wasn't trafficked in the traditional sense.†   (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)
  • "We have a tradition here at Spence," Felicity says.†   (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)
  • It's not a traditional target.†   (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)
  • It wasn't easy to obtain permission for Na-na's traditional burial, however, since this was now considered an old, unhealthy tradition.†   (source)
  • Standing on a stage he'd built for musicians under the pepper tree, Dempsey, wearing a traditional black Tanzanian outfit, stood and addressed the community he'd come to love.†   (source)
  • In reality, he'd never been that interested in lecturing or teaching in any traditional way.†   (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)
  • Performance poetry resembles traditional poetry, but with an added element: the actual performance.†   (source)
  • Sturdy and economical, it faced east in the traditional way, so that each morning its occupants, opening the door, were greeted by the rising sun.†   (source)
  • Upstage Song, who appears as a beautiful woman in traditional Chinese garb, dances a traditional piece from the Peking Opera, surrounded by the percussive clatter of Chinese music.†   (source)
  • They don't even appear to be coffee tables in the traditional sense, but I don't know what else to call them.†   (source)
  • Neither Pat nor Marc were macho in the traditional sense; conversation stalled repeatedly.†   (source)
  • I said, "Why?" and she said, "I don't know, maybe it's a Danish tradition."†   (source)
  • There remained, of course, the ancient tradition concerning the high king at Fornost, or Norbury as they called it, away north of the Shire.†   (source)
  • There are kings of other races who could assume the Silver Throne of Paralon—but tradition is not easily dismissed.†   (source)
  • KATHY AND JAMES VOSKUHL were having their first dance — and to break with tradition, it was a rocker.†   (source)
  • They were superstitious and had their own secrets and traditions.†   (source)
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