tradition

Example Sentences

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“I wanted a big stomping Los Angeles novel in the tradition of Carolyn See and Nathanael West,” Gale says.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Northern Ireland's McIlroy will, as tradition dictates, play in a group with US Amateur champion Mason Howell and last month's Players winner Cameron Young.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

It’s called the just-war tradition, and although it doesn’t spit out neat yes-or-no answers, it does point to the right questions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Bates-Chamberlain is founder and executive director of Live Free Chicago-Live Free Illinois, a social justice organization built on the Black church tradition.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

It brought together the old revolutionary rhetoric, even deploying some familiar Jeffersonian language, with all the oppositional energy of the Whig tradition, then hurled it at assumption as the new incarnation of foreign domination.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis