Words similar to rites

Example sentences for: rites

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

In the Jewish tradition, as I understand it, boys become adults at the age of 13 and go through rites intended to impress that upon them.
But Wolf's politics are roundly ridiculed, especially her idea that girls should retreat to the wilderness with older women to perform ceremonial sex rites.
Cicero and Horace spent student years in Athens, and Emperor Hadrian is said to have been initiated into the sacred mysteries of Demeter at Eleusis (the most famous secret religious rites of ancient Greece; see page74).
At the New York performance, the Israeli singer Esti Kenan Ofri spent most of the time shrouded in drapery and darkness at the foot of the podium, slowly rising and writhing only for the keening solo that ends the piece, a recitative redolent of Middle Eastern rites.
The emperor would lead a procession from the palace to the altar here to perform the annual rites and sacrifices to heaven.