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Example sentences for: practised

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cat whipping or whipping the cat a trick often practised on ignorant country fellows, vain of their strength: a wager is laid with them that they may be pulled through a pond by a cat.
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.
(The OED was originally published over a number of years in fascicles of various lengths which were sold by subscription, a method that is, alas, no longer practised.)
You can see the art of mosaics still being practised in workshops along the nearby Via Giuliano Argentario.
Curse John - In 1774 Philip Fithian was reminiscing in his diary about his undergraduate days at Princeton when “they often practised mischief by parading bad women and burning Curse John.”