For example, their remarkable custom of not allowing any of their offspring to live; for it has been a common custom in many parts of the world to put twins to death.
Again, it was a common custom for a raiding party to cremate their dead in the enemy's country, when there was no time to carry them home for the usual obsequies.
It is a common custom in the lower tribes to keep the sexes separate and to distinguish between the initiated and the uninitiated.
It was a common custom to leave useful articles by sacred trees and stones, or to cast them into rivers or into the sea.
In early times the goddess is represented as choosing her consorts at will, but this is merely an attribution to her of a common custom of the period.
It has long been a common custom of Eastern princes to bestow dresses of honour upon men of literature and science, as well as upon their great officers and other servants.
It is a common custom now to take a pipe and a cup of coffee during this period of rest.
We have seen that among European peoples it is a common custom to keep the plaited corn-stalks of the last sheaf, or the puppet which is formed out of them, in the farm-house from harvest to harvest.
In Albania down to recent years it was a common custom to burn a Yule log at Christmas, and the ashes of the fire were scattered on the fields to make them fertile.
It is a common custom, now, to take a pipe and a cup of coffee during this period of rest.
It is a common custom in the East to sprinkle the ground, during the summer, in order to cool the air.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common custom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
