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Example sentences for: rites

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

Celebrity rites of passage: Dick Morris' wife announced she is divorcing him.
But now they seem "bent upon repeating the cruel and monotonous rites of the religion of totalitarianism."
Archaeologists, still unsure of what was involved, suggest that the gorgeously painted scenes of dancing satyrs, flagellation, and a woman kneeling before a sacred phallus indicate rites that the town preferred to keep at a decorous distance, in this splendid suburban villa, most likely the home of a priestess.
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.
A refinement of this form of argument, worked out by Dr. Ross C. Knee, is the Barbara of Seville, which underlies much of the Seville Rites legislation of the 1960's.