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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:

Women went from being active to passive participants in the rites of beautification.
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.
The altar — where the emperor performed annual rites — was erected on a hill in 1530 and is today crowned by a pavilion.
Sometimes rites of passage, like the experience of suffering, lead to great wisdom.
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.