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"Ceremonial" in a Sentence (21 examples)
Many a gentleman of the old school has been provoked to remark regretfully upon the under-bred manners and bearing of even the better classes in the modern industrial communities; and the decay of the ceremonial code—or as it is otherwise called, the vulgarisation of life—among the industrial classes proper has become one of the chief enormities of latter-day civilisation in the eyes of all persons of delicate sensibilities.
England proper is divided into 48 ceremonial counties.
In the gardens of the better classes summer-houses and shelters of rustic appearance and diminutive proportions are often seen. Rustic arbors are also to be seen in the larger gardens. Specially constructed houses of quaint design and small size are not uncommon; in these the ceremonial tea-parties take place. High fences, either of board or bamboo, or solid walls of mud or tile with stone foundations, surround the house or enclose it from the street. Low rustic fences border the gardens in the suburbs. Gateways of various styles, some of imposing design, form the entrances; as a general thing they are either rustic and light, or formal and massive.
Archeologists have found a Roman ceremonial chariot near Pompeii.
I drank ceremonial sake with gold leaf in it at the new year.
Everyone was dressed in beautiful ceremonial outfits.
Convocation was supposed to be a fun all-day event to get us new students acquainted with the university, but it really just felt like a ceremonial waste of time.
Dressed in ceremonial garb, he began the ritual.
A hundred and fifty feet from this pueblo is a large upright block of sandstone, which is said to be used as a datum point in the observations of the sun made by a priest of Zuñi for the regulation of the time for planting and harvesting, for determining the new year, and for fixing the dates of certain other ceremonial observances.
The mounds built by native people 1400–800 years ago were used for ceremonial purposes that remain a mystery.
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What mockery will it be / To want the bridegroom when the priest attends / To speak the ceremonial rites of marriage!
His merit introduced him to ſplendid tables and elegant acquaintance, but he did not find himſelf alvvays qualified to join in the converſation. He vvas diſtreſſed by civilities, vvhich he knevv not hovv to repay, and entangled in many ceremonial perplexities, from vvhich his books and diagrams could not extricate him.
[T]his change in ceremonial observances and outward show was trifling when compared to that in the objects of worship […]
Philomena Guinea's black Cadillac eased through the tight, five o'clock traffic like a ceremonial car.
“You must swear it. By Adamcos,” said Catweazle, drawing his ceremonial knife. “Crumbs! What's that?” asked Carrot, very taken with the knife.
Oh monstrous, superstitious puritan, / Of refin’d manners, yet ceremoniall man, […]
[W]ith dumb Pride, and a set formal Face, / He moves, in the dull Ceremonial track, […]
Curt’sies, and the usual Ceremonials between Women who are Strangers to each other being past, Sophia said, ‘I have not the Pleasure to know you, Madam.’
Public ceremonies, such as ordinations, the installation of magistrates, and all that could give majesty to the forms in which a new government manifested itself to the people, were, as a matter of policy, marked by a stately and well-conducted ceremonial, and a sombre, but yet a studied magnificence.
There was little ceremonial to mark the opening of the completed railway beyond the fact that a decorated train left Paddington at 8 a.m. on the morning of June 30 a hundred years ago and, passing the beflagged ends of Box tunnel, arrived at Bristol at noon.
I have been in favour of ceremonial and patterns all my life, and I have no desire to break the funeral pattern.
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