unwritten law
Example Sentences
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There’s an unwritten law that literary fiction set in the high plains be sturdy and simple — sentences firm as fence posts, commas hammered in as clean as barn nails.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024
Experts say the unwritten law of the sea is a Hollywood-fed myth and a relic of Victorian-era chivalry.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2023
Patty is Allison's next-door neighbor, and per the unwritten law of sitcoms, one might assume that the two would automatically be friends, if not best pals.
From Salon • Jul. 18, 2021
"We never talked about it and it was sort of unwritten law that we didn't. He just told us that he wasn't up to doing tours, and that's as far as it went."
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2020
This is the argument, he says, that Antigone makes in burying her brother Polynices: it may be against the arbitrary and temporary law of the tyrant Creon, but not against the unwritten law of justice.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
