| Indeed, attendance at the Naval War College became a virtual rite of passage to obtain flag rank during this period. |
| There's a rite of passage in many tribes of taking off all your clothes and going off into the woods to survive with your bare hands. |
| In others, it may include completion of a rite of passage, such as getting buried up to your chin in an ant nest on your thirteenth birthday. |
| Time was when being offered a tipple for the first time was a rite of passage, a coming of age. |
| With teen boys, their rite of passage is getting their first girlie magazine and talking about it with their buddies. |
| Getting thrown out of it, preferably after signing in under a fictitious and assumed name, was always a local rite of passage. |
