Example sentences for: practised

How can you use “practised” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bruce, it turned out, was the author of the 15-word super-sentence--a creation that not only contains an elliptical adverb clause of comparison, “than I [practised],” and a hidden noun clause, “[that] he stank,” but compacts the four phrases into the subordinate part and the three clauses into the main part.

  • ' In light of U.S. history, such punishment is virtually a return to the lynching that was practised during the frontier development period."

  • You can see the art of mosaics still being practised in workshops along the nearby Via Giuliano Argentario.

  • Flat-Head , for example, refers to several tribes (Catawba, Chinook, Choctaw, Waxshaw, et al.) that once practised head-flattening; and the Yellowknife , an Algonquian people living east of Great Slave Lake, Canada, were so named from their use of copper implements: pedestrian names, these, in which inventiveness played no part.

  • whip the cat Tailoring, to work at private houses, as practised in the country.


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