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Example sentences for: rites

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Celebrity rites of passage: Dick Morris' wife announced she is divorcing him.
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.
Women went from being active to passive participants in the rites of beautification.
But some would say that, spurred by their own vanity and their clients' impressionability, they would have reached the pinnacles of pomposity without having to resort to these ancient rites.
The altar — where the emperor performed annual rites — was erected on a hill in 1530 and is today crowned by a pavilion.