Custom In A Sentence

Definition of Custom

• The commercials were not for familiar brands; there was no feeling of use and custom to them.
• We know this, because the custom of lighting the fire survived until very recent times.
• The boy fetched the weapon, and according to custom preceded the visitor down the pathway.
• Habit reconciles mankind to everything, even humiliation, and custom veils disgrace.
• In this country most horses have a name, but in Germany this custom must be unusual.
• Here the door opened, and Mr. Townshend walked in unannounced, as it was his custom to do.
• The custom of carefully selecting the seed has grown with the industry and may be said to be inseparable from it.
• Afterward, when she was alone with her mother, as was her custom she reflected a little while over the matter.
• It was a custom which was so well established and so universally recognized, that it had all the force and dignity of law.
• He used to speak at me, and drifted into a custom of coming home with me very regularly for an after-talk.
• It is clothed in homespun flannel, which arises from the custom of its votaries offering portions of their dress when addressing it.
• The custom is to rise very early, even between two and three in the morning, when the days lengthen.
• And, as was the custom in those days for such an event, there was a parade, music by the bands and other appropriate festivities.
• We developed something like a custom of walks, about once a week or so, and letters and notes became frequent.
• Lloyd recounted the basic formalities of custom for Boyce and explained that these people were not known to be very hostile.
• She was prettily attired after the custom of her tribe, wore bracelets of silver and a red tiara decked with eagle feathers.
• As in so many other instances long custom came gradually to obtain the force of legal enactment and the payment of tithe to become legally binding.
• In those days it was the custom to use this island as a place whereon might be slain thieves & criminals, and on it stood a gallows.
• He knew this was the custom of the law-abiding, who nodded to the police and went to church on Sunday.
• And in process of time, custom having established these as a law, an image set up by an impious tyrant receives divine honours.
• It seems that it was the custom of those days for the bell ringers of the neighbouring village Churches to exchange visits of friendly rivalry.
• There the clock had stood at his mercy, and by all Jago custom and ethic it was his if only he could get clear away with it.
• The sleepy maid took a coal upon a chip, instead of matches, and this primitive custom saved her from horribly drowning.
• He then told me that it was a custom among the Romans for a man to give his slaves their liberty when he lay upon his death-bed.
• The long-established custom of crowding the Sunday congregation into the choir should be abolished, and the organ should be modified or removed.
• A custom 'tis of ancient date, Our lesser worlds within the great world to create!
• The cultivated land round each ancient Saxon manor village was marked off according to the custom of the time into three enormous unfenced fields.
• The fact is, I was ignorantly violating, every night, a custom in which he was commercially interested.

• The custom of the country will do it all.
• So this became the custom of the place, the unwritten law.
• Formerly it was the custom to nail the horse-shoe to the threshold.
• Nevertheless another ancient and honourable custom remains with us.
• Well, this thatching of hovels is the custom of the country.
• It is the custom in many parts of the country to shear on the floor.
• The custom was to pack the dollars in little bags of a hundred each.
• It's only old custom that makes us keep together.
• This custom is probably a relic of old Scandinavian mythology.
• The custom of sending Christmas cards in open envelopes is increasing.
• How the custom originated, I leave it to the historian to decide.
• Mr Weech would not have sold Dicky's custom for ten shillings a week.