How to Use rite of passage in a Sentence

rite of passage

noun

• It’s been called a rite of passage, a whirlwind, and even a new world.
  — Spin Contributor, SPIN, 11 Mar. 2024
• For French chefs, the baba au rhum is a rite of passage.
  — Michelle Tchea, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2024
• For a white youth to accept the brutal hypocrisies of the way things are is a rite of passage.
  — Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
• By Faith Hill Babysitting used to be both a job and a rite of passage.
  — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
• The track even later secured the Kidz Bop treatment, a rite of passage in the pop-sphere.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
• For many who grow up in the South, cotillion classes are a rite of passage.
  — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2024
• Even for the youngest, street hockey is a rite of passage on Boston streets.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023
• Going to bed on the night of a snowstorm and wishing for a snow day is a rite of passage as a kid.
  — Amy O'Kruk, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
• The Texas tradition has become a teenage rite of passage and a kind of folk art, too.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2024
• The road trip is such an American rite of passage, too.
  — Chris Ritter, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2024
• Losing your first tooth is a rite of passage for many children.
  — Dr. Joanne Armstrong, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2023
• The film, which opened this week, follows a trio of British girls through a Dionysian rite of passage: the post-exams holiday.
  — Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2024
• Such things have become a part of his life in this famed fishing port, where the greasy pole has long been a treasured rite of passage.
  — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
• In an adolescent rite of passage, three children climb and hang upside down from the limbs of one of few trees.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2023
• In no uncertain terms, then, this final was a rite of passage for Gauff.
  — Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
• Scoring an exclusive invite to the Met Gala is a rite of passage for many stars.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 6 May 2024
• Getting a driver's license is a rite of passage for many teenagers.
  — Denise Witmer, Parents, 30 July 2024
• It’s meant to be a rite of passage, but she gets caught and arrested and bleeds everywhere.
  — Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
• Opening up the glossy pages at the beauty salon or getting a subscription in the mail was a rite of passage.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 18 Aug. 2023
• Hence the herring, every greenhorn’s rite of passage on the Wizard.
  — Ashley Boucher, EW.com, 11 June 2024
• Shopping for strollers and car seats is an important yet pricey rite of passage.
  — Lauren Levy, Parents, 10 Oct. 2023
• Tracking down your first Rolex is a rite of passage for any watch collector.
  — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 7 May 2024
• Giving Bob a ride home is a neighborhood rite of passage.
  — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
• For many people, the classic American road trip is a rite of passage.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
• For many start-ups, pursuing VC funding seems like a rite of passage.
  — Yule Georgieva, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2023
• Getting stung is a rite of passage for Belmont kiters; one local has endured the pain more than two dozen times.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• That was the biggest hurdle — finding a name in graffiti is like a rite of passage.
  — Matt Thompson, Spin, 26 Sep. 2023
• Picking out folders and notebooks, even pencils is a fun back-to-school rite of passage.
  — Sarah Bregel, Parents, 14 Aug. 2024
• In the film, a group of teenagers go to the trestle as part of a rite of passage and one of the characters comes face-to-face with the title beast just before a train comes into view.
  — Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 28 Sep. 2024
• The anecdotes are presented as rites of passage or tests of mettle, survival stories not about staring down the barrel of a gun, but the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024