ritualize

Example Sentences

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But he was best known for his role in the effort to end the death penalty in the United States, a practice that he described as “state-sanctioned, ritualized murder.”

From Washington Post

Meanwhile Jake, who owns a bespoke tea shop, is forced to contend with the messy emotions and unwieldy philosophical questions his highly ritualized existence has been contoured neatly to avoid.

From Washington Post

This, in Williams’s highly ritualized world — mornings spent studying film reels and improvising at his Steinway; a turkey sandwich and glass of Perrier at 1 p.m.; afternoons devoted to revisions — was initially disorienting.

From New York Times

The fact that the locker-room altercation had a name, “Bodies,” suggests that it had become ritualized among the players, Bellocchio said: “You don’t name a random fight in its first incarnation.”

From Los Angeles Times

And will the cannibalism of "Yellowjackets" be supernatural in origin, physical survival, or a coping mechanism, a ritualized way to make order in the spiraling, unknown world?

From Salon