Example sentences for: customs

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

  • Frances Toor’s classic book on Mexican folklore, A Treasury of Mexican Folkways, relates wedding customs of the various regions and indigenous groups of Mexico.

  • English is extraordinarily rich in metaphor, and it is the intention of this book to show that many of the figures of speech that we use from day to day derive from the language and customs of the sea.

  • Democrats always conjured up some kind of pretext: Reynolds hadn't enforced the law; Lucas had no background in civil-rights enforcement and hadn't declared some stuff at customs.

  • The actual procedure for reimbursement, whereby Customs retains an amount equal to the estimated cost, is simpler but equivalent in substance.

  • The collections are earmarked by law to a special fund from which receipts are made available to finance Customs Service operations to the extent provided by current appropriations.


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