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Example sentences for: rite

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While Soutine--unlike Chagall, to whom he is sometimes compared--did not paint stereotypically Jewish subjects, he may have been alluding, with those dangling fowl, to a Yom Kippur rite in which a slaughtered chicken was whirled around a rabbi's head in a ritual of absolution.
The rite is liberating but also frightening: Remove a cork from a bottle so pressurized, and the contents are apt to explode.
Every year around this time, the Rite of Spring is performed in Washington.
In a sense, the climbing of Rainier has become the sacred rite of REI culture.
In Japan, climbing Mount Fuji is a rite of the Shinto religion.