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Sentence Examples Collected by the author himself from the stories passed down by word of mouth from the locals living in the areas where the burnings occurred. I have a feeling that Horton's style wasn't as rigid as the way that it has been passed down. Welsh culture was based on an oral tradition of legends, myths, and folktales passed down from generation to generation. They were simply passed down to you by your elders like tribal law, extracts from some oral manual for living. Traditionally, in this industry, the boys are trained in the skill which is then passed down generations. For years, nobody would go there, as warnings were passed down from one generation of Oxford cavers to another. As I picked my way through the grounds, I remembered two warnings that have been passed down to me through the ages. Sarah looked out of the window after them until they had passed down the valley and she could see them no more. Many political affiliations are passed down through the chain, with entire villages voting in accord during an election. He had never been one for idle pursuits, and it was a trait he had passed down to Grace. Hiccups, heartburn, colds and warts are often treated with remedies passed down from one generation to another. A lot of the time culture is passed down to us by the advertisers, and the big corporations. However, equality was unheard of and land could not be passed down to women. It has survived enclosure and modernisation and strips have been passed down through generations. They also have a special skill that has been passed down to every generation. Messages for the duty controller were passed down from the gallery using a bulldog clip tied on to the end of what looked like a broomstick. Freddie was passed down the line, each diver detaining him to take their turn. He will provide a display of traditional techniques that have been passed down through the years. Before their pioneering research the method by which information was passed down from parent to child was completely unknown. The sword was a family heirloom, passed down through the generations to the eldest child. Show More Sentences The curd tart recipe has been passed down for many years and is a closely-guarded secret. A trade that has been passed down for generations came very close to extinction in the late Nineties. Yet what marks her most is that this former slave woman character narrates her story to her children and ensures that it is passed down. In patients recovering from a stroke who need feeding, a fine bore, soft feeding tube can be passed down under radiological guidance. A long, thin, bendy tube with a camera on the end is passed down your throat and into the oesophagus. These precious ornaments are often passed down through the generations as family heirlooms. Four years later in Sydney he was passed down the home straight by the unknown Kenyan Noah Ngeny. They passed down a long leaky corridor before reaching a heavily locked door at the other end. Oxygen is passed down the tube, which is rotated while an oxy-hydrogen flame is slowly traversed down its length. They are required to by tradition and tribal law passed down by generations of swing elders. The evening meal, called a Seder, is designed to appeal to people of all ages so that the story might be passed down through the ages. While the funeral home business is often passed down from generation to generation, Starry never imagined she'd become a funeral director. She also brought a Shelley tea set which was passed down to her from her grandmother. The Arthurian Legends are a cycle of stories that has been shaped and passed down through over fourteen hundred years of English history. Intricately handcarved rosewood and handmade lace are art forms passed down from generation to generation. This is a hospital test where a narrow tube with a light and lens on the end is passed down the trachea and into the lung. Jewelry is still frequently passed down from mother to daughter or daughters-in-law at weddings. Charlotte Gainsbourg, who carries so well the mannish shirt mantle passed down by her mother Jane Birkin, works the look perfectly. Songs, stories, proverbs, and sayings have been passed down over thousands of years. She is fascinated with history and theatre, two loves passed down from her mother. Show More Sentences The traditional patterns are all geometric designs and have been passed down through time, generation to generation. Tipi wore a greenstone tiki around her neck that had been passed down through many generations. It was a depiction of legends passed down, legends of despair and desolation. This gets passed down to children who internalize it and consequently begin to feel the same way. Thinking of language as an instinct inverts the popular wisdom, especially as it has been passed down in the canon of the humanities and social sciences. Luckily, it isn't long before he learns that a family amulet, passed down from his father, is actually a powerful gem that possesses the ability of time travel. Now it was being passed down to Bill as he neared his sixteenth birthday. Anyway, proverbs are pithy sayings passed down through the generations which are either observations on life or guides to behaviour. These are still generally passed down though the male line, and make no provision for same-sex marriages, which clearly isn't fair. The oil is an antiseptic cough medicine that has been passed down to us from Antiquity. The life blood of Petre's rustic cooking is honest soups, seasonal ragouts and stews and handmade pastry, passed down matrilineally through the generations. Positions included benefits such as room and board and sometimes second-hand clothing passed down from the employer. The birthright promises were passed down through Joseph, through his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, but the scepter promises came through Judah. Is it fair to summarize that these costs and how they are passed down varies greatly? Many tribes were matrilineal: land, livestock and family names were passed down through women. The cultures that interpret this land in myth, legend, song and dance are passed down from generation to generation. Over the centuries, the property continued to retain its priory function as it was passed down amongst miscellaneous abbeys and seigneuries. And behaviours which helped the group such as altruism would be selected for genetically and passed down through the generations. Mr. Speaker, the balance in the justice system has been passed down to us by our parents. Despite the fact that there are good policies in the arts, these policy intentions do not get passed down to the students via programs. Show More Sentences Only a tiny portion of the correspondence written after the arrival of the colonists in New France has been passed down to us. It is difficult to understand that, in this day and age, a sentence of death by stoning could be passed down. Many of these traditions are only simple customs or superstitions that have been passed down for centuries. Preparations, which last for a whole year, follow instructions passed down to children from age five, and from generation to generation. Their children are also considered Mohawk even though, according to custom, clans are passed down through the mother's line. I suspect they get passed down to the primary producer at the end of the day. In Mali, music is a national treasure passed down for centuries from generation to generation. The educated expertise regarding the Maine cat is clear from the detail Mrs. Pierce has passed down to us. In recent years, responsibilities are being passed down to municipal governments without adequate resources, so services are being cut. No beauties, poetical or musical, have been passed down to us from any actual man called Orpheus. After the recessional Croft waited until the exodus had abated, nodded silently to her ladyship as she passed down the aisle, and followed the stragglers out. There exists a sense of psychosis projected through his paintings, as if genetically passed down from his late grandfather. Tales of mermaids in these parts have been passed down over the years. Physicians got their knowledge from experience and information being passed down from person to person. For the Great Barrier Reef, though, the world's most famous and largest coral reef system, a final decision passed down today gives us another gash, through which could rush millions of tonnes of coal. Their special lyrics have been passed down virtually unchanged for at least 50,000 years, and are often accompanied by clapsticks or the deep throb of the didgeridoo. In order to ensure that the European film heritage is passed down to future generations, it has to be systematically collected, catalogued, preserved and restored. In this regard, we will never transcend the principles that have been passed down to us since time immemorial, and which came into being with the human race. In those days, the art of making Spanish juice in a pop bottlewas passed down from father to son. Nursery rhymes, folk songs and recipes for numerous traditional local dishes have grown up around chestnut production and been passed down to the present day. Show More Sentences Everything was passed down, the gestures even. Stories, some literally true, some symbolically or mythically true, have been passed down over the ages to encourage ethical behaviour. The diseases were not serious enough to threaten their lives, but this sort of genetic disease is passed down to future generations of their children. Regarding animal wholesomeness, we must take into account hunters' years and years of experience, knowledge passed down from generation to generation, the aspect of the animal, its behaviour. In 1969 Jacques Pauly, a true wine grower whose love for vines was passed down to him by his father, took charge of the estate and worked to develop its reputation. Some franchisors have a temptation to oversell a territory, especially since losses in revenue are largely passed down to the previous franchisees within that territory. The men are known as guisers and their right to carry the barrels is passed down from father to son. The earldom was passed down to David's descendants, amongst whom was John Balliol. Information needed to be centralised and passed down to site managers. Brewing was a genuine craft, passed down by tradition. Interesting fact: the lake sturgeon does not have scales, but rather five rows of bony plates, passed down from its ancestors more than 65 million years ago. In 1709, Rowe passed down a tradition that Shakespeare played the ghost of Hamlet's father. These foxes serve the family and are passed down through the generations, typically through the female line. It has been passed down through the generations and Spenser views this system as a native backward custom which must be destroyed. This amplified local differences in racially conservative political attitudes, which in turn have been passed down locally across generations. Many families have their own recipes and strands of grapes that have been passed down through the generations. The details of this event have been passed down by Gregory of Tours, who recorded them many years later in the sixth century. When eating, they will fill their gullet with food, which is in turn passed down their esophagus in the form of a ball called a bolus. The griot profession is passed down generation to generation and requires years of training and apprenticeship in genealogy, history and music. Geneticists have suggested that some Icelanders may carry Beothuk DNA, which has been passed down matrilineally over the centuries. Show More Sentences Details of this trading across the Indian Ocean have been passed down in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. Handmade ice cream is a specialty of Dolores Hidalgo, made with all natural ingredients, often using recipes passed down for generations. Typesetting, or the placement of the characters on the page, including the use of ligatures, was passed down from master to apprentice. The poem has passed down from a Latin translation by Bede in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. A tradition is a belief or behavior passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. Until this time, the Basotho customs and laws were passed down from generation to generation through oral tradition. Various collections of teachings attributed to him were passed down by oral tradition and first committed to writing about 400 years later. Belief in ghosts is found in all cultures around the world, and thus ghost stories may be passed down orally or in written form. Their experience and knowledge passed down from one generation to the next enable them to carry out the entire production process in the appropriate manner. In addition, where exposure scenarios are developed as a result of conducting a Chemical Safety Assessment, they must be annexed to the Safety Data Sheet and thus be appropriately passed down the supply chain. These practices are passed down and evolve. It's been passed down through the generations. His mitochondrial DNA passed down the direct maternal line was compared to samples from the human remains found at the excavation site and used to identify King Richard. Unlike organisms, a gene is passed down from a generation of organisms to the next generation either as perfect replicas of itself or as slightly mutated descendant genes. Reflexology is an ancient alternate medical practice, thought to have been passed down through tradition, as early as 2330BC along with other medical procedures. Much of our knowledge and understanding of Castlerigg stone circle has been passed down to us by the work of 18th century antiquarians and 19th century amateurs. Works such as the 'Histories' of Tacitus, the 'Gallic Wars' by Julius Caesar and 'History of Rome' by Livy have been passed down through generations. After its establishment, each subsequent prophet and leader of the church have received the authority passed down by the laying on of hands, or through apostolic succession. There are many ancient legends and stories about bagpipes which were passed down through minstrels and oral tradition, whose origins are now lost. The house has been passed down in the family from generation to generation. Show More Sentences Eighty percent of the DNA of most Britons, according to modern research, has been passed down from a few thousand individuals who hunted in this region after the last Ice Age. These texts have been passed down for generations from teacher to student. An elective monarchy is a monarchy ruled by an elected monarch, in contrast to a hereditary monarchy in which the office is automatically passed down as a family inheritance. After the chaos, my family spent the rest of the day hanging ornaments passed down through generations while a plug-in bird chirper cackled pitifully in the background. A blend of exotic bitter oranges and the finest Cognac, Grand Marnier relies on a secret recipe passed down through six generations of the Marnier Lapostolle family. The mythology of Ireland was originally passed down orally, but much of it was eventually written down by Irish monks, who Christianized and modified it to an extent. Different islands and island groups in the Carolines passed down unique and variant oral legends recounting the origins and early histories of their peoples. Among the Iban, textiles were customarily passed down as family heirlooms. An ad truck passed down the lane blaring out a shrill announcement for a new perfume and cosmetics line that would be available Saturday in the town's department store. Examples from Classical Literature Our plan was to seize a boat, as we passed down channel, and get ashore in England. Kabuki stage names are bestowed and passed down between generations of actors' lineages. A young mom was walking rosily on the hills as we passed down Uncle Stephen's Walk, with Paddy trotting before us. From that point we passed down to the mouth of the Niobrara. At some point in history, that tradition was fixed in hexameters on a page and passed down to us now. They entered the court and passed down an aisle to a railed enclosure in which were high oak chairs. Based on stories passed down through the family over the generations and upon Gambino's own research, The Vindicators pulls back the curtain on the Mafia. Along one side of the field the whole wain went, the arms of the mechanical reaper revolving slowly, till it passed down the hill quite out of sight. There are blanket proscriptions, passed down from on high, which reduce everything to a bland vichyssoise that suits comedy programmes not at all. Find more words! 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