1.   It was a way of imposing some sort of initiation ceremony on himself.

2.   Some initiation ceremony perhaps or unspoken betrothal?

3.   The club has an initiation ceremony for new members.

4.   We saw that initiation ceremonies and totemic ceremonial in general were means of instilling in fresh generations the consequences of the traumatic experiences of their predecessors.

5.   Bomb-making is now part of the initiation ceremony for admission to the National Association of Nuts, Fruitcakes and Wackos.

6.   After ponderous proclamations at the initiation ceremony, forearms are branded and huge gold watches passed out to cover the scars.

7.   For thousands of years, young men in initiation ceremonies have scaled mesas near the Little Colorado River and the Painted Desert to capture the eaglets.

8.   His family moved east to the Hermannsburg Mission, where he worked as a construction laborer and went through the full range of tribal initiation ceremonies.

9.   In one initiation ceremony, new members were stomped on.

10.   Max and Sherry arrived for The Watcher initiation ceremony together.