How To Use Rite of passage In A Sentence
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Leading a delegation to China is a rite of passage for any political leader.
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Accepting the badge of a Little Octoberist, a title honoring the October 1917 revolution led by Lenin, was the first rite of passage for every Soviet citizen, to be followed by membership in the Young Pioneers, the Communist Youth League and finally, for some, the Communist Party itself.
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I think a lot of people who are drawn to witchcraft sometimes will get a tattoo, or mark themselves in some way to denote a rite of passage or an experience.
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{ Rite of Passage } M ark Charon found himself in rather a difficult position.
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Students from middle-class homes regard university holidays as a rite of passage into adulthood and academics view them as a perk.
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Shiny black patent leather flats with a convertible strap that flipped behind the heel or over the instep were a particularly meaningful rite of passage for me, since it meant that I was allowed to wear 'big girl' shoes, not just little girl Mary Janes.
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The stars and crew of Coronation Street have become used to seeing politicians prowling round their place of work, as though a picture on the set of Britain's most venerable soap opera is a political rite of passage.
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This period is undoubtedly exciting, a rite of passage and a time to study a favourite subject, make new friends and have some fun.
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In others, it may include completion of a rite of passage, such as getting buried up to your chin in an ant nest on your thirteenth birthday.
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Swimming through the hole at high tide is a rite of passage.
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This was the ideal rite of passage for my 40th birthday.
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Most people consider acne to be a consequence of being a teenager, as though it were a rite of passage marking the ascent into adulthood.
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In this discussion, attempt is devoted to discern the political symbolism he should now titivate himself with in the light of fulfilling the presidential rite of passage.
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For months we've been subjected to proof after proof that we are no longer in control over our own bodies only to look forward to the ultimate humiliation of submission to the rite of passage - pain.
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Nowhere is this more apparent than at university where heavy drinking is'a rite of passage '.
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Drinking a pint or two of sweet cider in the belief that it is the elixir of adulthood is a rite of passage every teenager undergoes.
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This period is undoubtedly exciting, a rite of passage and a time to study a favourite subject, make new friends and have some fun.
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Sure, rows with the home secretary are a rite of passage for ambitious ministers.
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Like ringbone, sidebone tends to develop in older horses; in fact, it's considered almost a normal rite of passage for the lateral cartilages to ossify to some degree over time, and the process is only designated as sidebone when it is premature or happens abnormally fast and leads to lameness.
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Before collectivisation in the 1930s destroyed the traditional social pattern of village life, the peasant wedding was a complex rite of passage which included many apotropaic rituals.
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One couch was very close to a bookshelf, and Barbara explained to me that bumping your head on this bookshelf was a rite of passage for members of the English Department.
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Set in the 1980s, the story follows the rite of passage of Nick Guest, a young gay aesthete from the provinces who finds himself adopted, after a fashion, by a grand Notting Hill family led by a thrusting Tory MP.
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Getting a driving licence will not be the rite of passage for their great grandchildren that it was for them.
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Entering monkhood is a rite of passage for many boys, although most of them spend a few days to a few months—rather than a lifetime—as a monk.
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The pen is a rite of passage, an instrument that lends their line instant character and plugs their work into comics' striated heritage, which trails back to the days when illustrators dipped before they drew.
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Whether you plan on attending a prom or tying the knot, renting a tux is a rite of passage in any man's life.
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There was a time when every newly independent country yearned for a national airline; it was a rite of passage, that went with the gaily coloured flag and a seat at the UN.
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Marriage, though not the social imperative it once was, still stands for a major rite of passage into adult life.
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August 05, 2005 9: 56 AM bibliobibuli said ... chet - invented my own rite of passage scarfer - who needs a plot!? hope anyway you'll come and join us on the 20th
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in the South a snipe hunt is practically a rite of passage
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Those going to university straight from school still hanker after the rite of passage that going away to university has become.
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And the ordeal of initiation necessitates this brush with exotic death, for the liminal space in the journey of the rite of passage is about the annihilation of self.
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They weren't hazing me, they were teaching me the rite of passage.
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But new recruits are always forced to undergo tough initiation ceremonies as a rite of passage before joining.
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This period is undoubtedly exciting, a rite of passage and a time to study a favourite subject, make new friends and have some fun.
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Marriage for women also represented a rite of passage - separation from their family of birth, and incorporation into their husband's community.
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Getting thrown out of it, preferably after signing in under a fictitious and assumed name, was always a local rite of passage.
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This idyllic feeling of romance seemed too much like a temporary state, a schoolboy rite of passage.
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The saddest line: "It used to be that naming your new stuffed animal was practically a sacred rite of passage in plush parenting; now, if the tag on the creature doesn't provide a pre-fab name, we're seeing kids at a loss, calling their new dog 'Puppy' and their new cat 'Kitty.'
Don't call me "Baby."
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It would still have been a mistake to lionize Witt for choosing only the rite of passage, football, over its intended outcome, the civic leadership cherished by Cecil Rhodes and, once upon a time, by Yale.
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From our seats in the bleachers, we stared west, hoping that another kaleidoscopic Florida sunset would add symbolic luster to this most American rite of passage.
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Those going to university straight from school still hanker after the rite of passage that going away to university has become.
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There is no rite of passage that so clearly separates the devout from the damned.
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In what he calls a rite of passage like a "Southern bar mitzvah," he says that, except for his toddler, "I've taught all my children how to shoot.
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After sixteen summers a child of the plain, no matter what gender or tribe, goes through the rite of passage.
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Marriage is seen as a rite of passage.
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In most, if not all, ancient religions with a belief in reincarnation, the soul entering a body is seen as a metaphysical demotion, a sullying and impure rite of passage.
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It's a rite of passage.
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A funeral is a solemn rite of passage, and since the days of ancient civilization, the eulogy has been a speech of good words for the dead.
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Time was when being offered a tipple for the first time was a rite of passage, a coming of age.
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Tribal circumcision of young adolescents in many African nations is an important rite of passage into adulthood—another deeply engrained, essential tradition.
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He explained that whether it is done as a rite of passage or to serve some other purpose, tattoos are common to every society from Africa to China.
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Swimming through the hole at high tide is a rite of passage.
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Learning to drive was once an essential teenage rite of passage.
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Seeing a man get his face smashed in by a mace is a normal rite of passage for a teenage boy.
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Rite of passage conveying status change for males, from young boys to responsible men.
