de rigueur

How To Use de rigueur In A Sentence

• It is de rigueur to ridicule them - of course they are laughable loons!
• The national anthem at last week's home opener at Fenway Park — performed by a Boston Pops contingent — included the now de rigueur obbligato of a military jet flyover. Flams and drags
• His critically acclaimed band Playgroup brought live electro to the club long before ironic mullets and fauxhawks became de rigueur.
• By the end of that century, the ballerina's long tutu and the premier danseur's tights, trunks and maillot became de rigueur and virtually standardized.
• And it's that part of the equation that most written SF is chickening out of: it's de rigueur to show how awfully bad things are going, and how much worse they will get, but almost nowhere do you see SF that thinks about how to * solve* those problems. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Jetse de Vries
• And," she wrote, "I cannot tell you what I felt when I put on the black dress and mantelletta and veil, which are _de rigueur_ when a lady is granted an audience with the Pope. My New Curate
• Imagine a time without guidebooks, when all routes were first ascents, when hemp ropes and cleated boots were de rigueur.
• There was a strong smell of aniseed in the air - pastis was the apéritif de rigueur. MOONDROP TO MURDER
• I grew up in Ottawa where wearing snowsuits under your Halloween costume is de rigueur, so this probably shouldn't phase me.
• For years, unloading your innermost thoughts to a counsellor was de rigueur for those undergoing the trials of celebrity. Times, Sunday Times