Example sentences for: practised

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

  • (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.)

  • Windsurfing and yachting are widely practised on Lake Balaton and boats and boards can be hired at the main resorts.

  • 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.

  • 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.”

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


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