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Example sentences for "practically impossible"

  • For example, if potatoes and cabbages are affected with the rot, it is practically impossible to keep them any length of time.

  • In some dark or shady places, and under some kinds of trees, it is practically impossible to secure a good lawn, and one may be obliged to resort to decumbent bushes or other forms of planting.

  • With the thigh bent on the flank, the leg on the thigh, and the shank on the leg, and all at once wedged into the passage, delivery is practically impossible.

  • The commingling of these varied fibers is often so intricate that separation is practically impossible.

  • Many of them chew their nails, some of them bite at their fingers round the nails and make them sore, many of them chew the ends of their pens and find it practically impossible to keep a pen with a long handle to it.

  • For most people it is practically impossible to use these muscles without a corresponding quasi-demure setting of the features, commonly associated with those who use them most.

  • Anyone who tries will find that it is practically impossible to wear shoes that are so short that the big toe is crowded back.

  • It is now well known, however, that the same feeling or such a good imitation of it that it is practically impossible to recognize the true from the false, occurs in pseudo-angina.

  • The English and American people are so averse to a scalded or cooked flavor in milk that it is practically impossible for a highly heated product to be sold in competition with ordinary raw milk.

  • Under the conditions in which milk is drawn, it is practically impossible to secure the same without bacterial contamination.

  • The amount excreted by the urine which comes from torn-down nerve tissue is so small that it is practically impossible to estimate variations in it even by the most careful analytic methods.

  • Pharmacists who have attempted to put up a nonproprietary preparation similar to or, more correctly, having the alleged composition of Bromidia have found it practically impossible to do so.

  • It is well known to manufacturers and physiologic chemists that it is practically impossible to manufacture a genuine meat juice possessing a reasonable amount of coagulable proteins, which is stable without a preservative.

  • Without the soft, flexible grip of the air-filled rubber tubes with which automobile wheels are shod, high-speed motoring would be practically impossible.

  • It is practically impossible to turn the worm by using the gear wheel as a driver because the friction developed at the point where the worm and gear contact is very great.

  • Such an ideal balance it is practically impossible to obtain unless the object itself is compressible.

  • Underground conduits have little or no value as insulators of high voltages, because it is practically impossible to keep them water-tight and prevent absorption or condensation of moisture therein.

  • On a line built in this way it would be practically impossible for an arc to start between the wires by any of the usual means.

  • If one has had a good grounding by studying the work of the ancient illuminators it is practically impossible to produce this type of work.

  • The lettering should be so arranged that it is practically impossible to avoid seeing the name of the commodity that is being advertised.

  • If the student examines carefully the best work of the mediƦval period he will notice that it is practically impossible to separate the miniature from the rest of the decoration.

  • This joint has wide articular surfaces, and securely joined as they are by the heavy medial and lateral ligaments (internal and external lateral ligaments), luxation is practically impossible.

  • Fractures that extend to the articular surface are very serious, and complete recovery in such instances is practically impossible.

  • The manner of construction of the fetlock joint is such that disarticulation without irreparable injury resulting, is practically impossible.

  • Reduction of femoral fracture in the horse is practically impossible, and retaining the broken bones in coaptation is not possible by means of mechanical appliances.

  • Education is given by a public-school system, which, while nominally providing for separate schools for Catholics and Protestants, makes it practically impossible at most points to carry on such schools.

  • In the neighbourhood of Bussa there is a long stretch of the river so impeded by rapids that navigation is practically impossible, except in small boats and at considerable risk.

  • Owing to this, it is practically impossible to condense the gaseous hydrochloric acid into the commercial acid, although this acid may be obtained sufficiently strong to be worked up in the Weldon chlorine process (see below, 3).

  • This is scarcely theoretically possible in golf, and it is practically impossible.

  • I quite agree with Braid that it is practically impossible to get any work whatever on the ball with the club he is shown using.

  • It is practically impossible to obtain wool free from vegetable fibres, and it is often desirable to separate these vegetable fibres.

  • It is practically impossible to specify here the best assistant for all the direct colours, on account of the great number of such dyes which are known, but in the practical recipes given below much useful advice will be found.

  • In the nature of things it is practically impossible, at least in respect to railroad property, to divide its value and determine how much is caused by one use to which it is put and how much by another.

  • But be that as it may, an International Army and Navy is practically impossible, just as a Federal World State is impossible.

  • But in my first lecture I pointed out that such a Federal World State is practically impossible.

  • A complete removal is practically impossible and as a last resort to obviate corrosion in certain designs, the bottom of the water legs in some cases have been made of copper.

  • In certain designs, due to the arrangement of baffling used it is practically impossible to remove all deposits of soot and dirt.

  • It is practically impossible in the building of such a boiler to so design and place the staybolts that all will be under equal strain.


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