Example sentences for: tradition

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

  • A tradition marking the beginning of the Christmas season with the dramatization of the search for lodging in Bethlehem by Joseph and Mary.

  • The reason for putting Brewer into the title (according to Rees) is that his book follows naturally in the tradition of ... Dictionary of Phrase and Fable [which] singled out words and phrases with tales to tell and did not attempt an unachievable comprehensiveness.

  • I need your immediate help today to save a tradition.

  • Although the four-elements paradigm remained robust throughout antiquity and through the Middle Ages (during which a mystical tradition emerged proposing a fifth element, ruling the others, the socalled quintessence ), atomism fell out of favor for nearly two millennia until the quantitative philosophy of the early Enlightenment created a conceptual environment friendly to the metamorphosis of alchemy, through the chemical experiments of Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, Joseph Priestley, Henry Cavendish, Antoine Lavoisier and others, into something like the chemistry we were all taught in high school.

  • Stephen Kinzer continues his dispatches from the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan in today's New York Times . Last week, it was a missive from a yak farm about that country's ancient tradition of nomadism; this week he's covering an enclave of ethnic Germans who live near the capital of Bishkek.


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