TRADITION in a Sentence

Learn TRADITION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
206 example sentences for TRADITION, such as:
1. The scout alludes to a tradition which is.
2. This region has a great sporting tradition.
3. Yet they would receive laurels from tradition.
4. This tradition has no parallel in our culture.
5. They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of TRADITION
tradition
 n.  a specific practice of long standing
 n.  an inherited pattern of thought or action
Classic Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
1  His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Scarlett knew that family tradition would forcibly restrain many of these people from such a struggle-- with the making of money admittedly its aim.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  Lost causes had a romantic charm for her, and she liked to picture herself as standing aloof from the vulgar press of the Quirinal, and sacrificing her pleasure to the claims of an immemorial tradition.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
4  The first tradition, repeated in scores of magazines every month, is that the American village remains the one sure abode of friendship, honesty, and clean sweet marriageable girls.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
5  This altogether admirable tradition rules the vaudeville stage, facetious illustrators, and syndicated newspaper humor, but out of actual life it passed forty years ago.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  This is how people keep up the tradition of the perfect home-town, the happy boyhood, the brilliant college friends.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  In old Norse times, the thrones of the sea-loving Danish kings were fabricated, saith tradition, of the tusks of the narwhale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. The Pipe.
8  The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVII
9  The scout alludes to a tradition which is.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
10  'Tis a long and melancholy tradition, and one I little like to think of; for it is not to be denied that the evil has been mainly done by men with white skins.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
11  And there were iron laws of tradition and law on four sides.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  Yet they would receive laurels from tradition.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
13  A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road of Ohain.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
14  They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSI...
15  It has brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
Example Sentence: (147 in 10 pages)
1  It is a tradition that the young look after the old in their family.
2  We decided to break with tradition and not spend Christmas with our family.
3  Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.
4  They instilled in their children a respect for Welsh tradition and culture.
5  This tradition has no parallel in our culture.
6  Conservatives are by tradition believers in a strong executive.
7  It's a tradition that dates back at least a thousand years.
8  The custom will never receive the sanction of tradition.
9  This region has a great sporting tradition.
10  To forgive is the ultimate grace and is in the best tradition of Jesus who taught to turn the other cheek.
11  This classical conservative tradition often insists that conservatism has no ideology.
12  The state of Massachusetts has always been famous for its history, and especially rich in tradition is the region around Boston.
13  The tradition of new year's resolutions helps us to focus in the days beforehand on how we are going to carry out our new behaviour, so we can plan and be less likely to forget.
14  According to traditions, the selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years.
15  This has given him a disposition to consider our traditions critically.