Example sentences for: customary

How can you use “customary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The smaller boats had no radio or radar, so it was customary, during adverse weather conditions, for the fishermen to congregate around whatever spot at the harbor offered the maximum shelter from the weather of the day.

  • Tourist offices have tried to rename the area L’Estrie, but even the most militant Québécois prefer the customary direct, if approximate, translation of the English: Cantons de l’Est.

  • Recently my girlfriend began forcing me to forego my usual visit to the $12-a-cut barber in favor of her "hair artiste" friend, Raoul, who wants not only the customary $50 for the half inch he shears with such aesthetic sensibility from my scalp but also a tip.

  • (We had to abandon our customary style of referring to characters by setting them in italics because the characters are indistinguishable.)

  • With its customary cheerfulness, Malay culture has added a comic element absent from the high drama of the original.


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