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Example sentences for "practically"

Lexicographically close words:
practicability; practicable; practical; practicalities; practicality; practice; practiced; practices; practicing; practise
  1. In the present case the Moplah customs and usages referred to practically obtain over a considerable part of the western coast of India, i.

  2. Inside of a fortnight after the events just chronicled, the women came ashore to occupy the practically completed huts.

  3. You took advantage of your authority and of the fact that he is so rich and powerful that he is practically without a friend or champion.

  4. As soon as possible thereafter a temporary camp will be set up, and practically every one on board will be moved from this ship.

  5. Duels were fought according to Hoyle, and were witnessed by practically every one in camp.

  6. This occurred about the middle of their first week on the island when practically every able-bodied man from the Doraine was at work cutting a way through the forest or in constructing the dock at the water's edge.

  7. Both executions had been witnessed by practically all of the inhabitants.

  8. The shore at that point was sloping and practically clear of undergrowth.

  9. The first shift's turn had come around once more in the natural order of things, and practically all of the men had been landed.

  10. For a time, at any rate, war may be practically abolished, and the military qualities may find another and a less pernicious outlet.

  11. The notion of a covenant was defined more rigorously; the Law was practically exalted above God, so that the Rabbis even represent the Deity as studying the Law.

  12. This theory has been practically abandoned in the English Church.

  13. They are practically identical, both in the design and the working out, save that in the Florence example Philip stands on a grass plot in front of a colonnade, while in that of Naples the background is featureless.

  14. Although the pose and treatment of the head are practically identical with that in the Berlin picture, the conception seems a less dramatic one.

  15. This pioneer work was practically forgotten for twenty-five years.

  16. Practically Hooker and Eyster found that the normal variation in healthy subjects was from 3 to 10 cm.

  17. This is within the limits of normal error and practically may be used by those who have difficulty in noting the change from third to fourth phase.

  18. The elastic tissue does lose its specific property and the artery thus becomes practically a connective tissue tube.

  19. The range of maximum pressure varies considerably in different individuals, but the highest and lowest maximum pressures are practically equidistant from the average pressure of any one individual.

  20. The fats and carbohydrates contain practically no substances that react on the body of the ordinary individual in a deleterious manner during their digestion.

  21. The elasticity is practically perfect, being both longitudinal and transverse.

  22. At the end of the anesthetization the pulse pressure is practically the same as at the beginning.

  23. Aortic stenosis, the rarest of the valvular lesions, is practically always accompanied by high pressure picture.

  24. Note that diastolic pause in which extrasystole occurs is practically equal to two normal diastolic pauses.

  25. The pressure then in these arterioles is practically the same as the diastolic pressure.

  26. Practically every one with a well-marked arcus senilis has arteriosclerosis, but vice versa not every one with even marked arteriosclerosis has an arcus senilis.

  27. Again, Mantegna was a pupil of =Squarcione of Padua=, who practically founded the Paduan school.

  28. The massive tower has been so much renewed as to be practically modern; but the Romanesque arches near the top give it distinction and beauty.

  29. The building is occupied by the Préfet de la Seine—the Department which practically coincides with Paris.

  30. By the second window, the famous and noble head of Mæcenas, the great Etruscan statesman and minister of Augustus, who practically organised the Roman Empire.

  31. On the South Door is a much-restored and practically modern relief of St. Denis in prison with Christ bringing him the last sacrament; it has been largely made up by the aid of the old French painting of the same subject in the Louvre.

  32. In the matter of chemistry it had been practically demonstrated to him scores of times, so that he should never forget this grand basic truth, that sodium and potassium may be relied upon to fizz flamingly about on a surface of water.

  33. The cream of the town, of its brains, its success, its respectability, was assembled together, and the Liberal party was practically unrepresented.

  34. I suppose you've got this place practically in your own hands now," said Charlie.

  35. They might just as well have said, "You're practically in your grave.

  36. It was a considerable safe, and it had the room practically to itself.

  37. He had caught them arm-in-arm and practically hugging each other, one Sunday afternoon in the street.

  38. And in the fearful grimness of the man's accents was concealed all his intense and egoistic sense of possessing in absolute ownership the business which the little boy out of the Bastille had practically created.

  39. It appeared almost incredible that those two immortals, so diverse, had issued from the womb practically alike; that a few brief years on the earth had given Big James such a tremendous physical advantage.

  40. Practically I have given in the preceding pages all that has been written on the subject.

  41. Yet practically these counterfeit or fabulous antiquities do little harm; their falsity may in most cases be without difficulty detected, as will be apparent from several instances of the kind noted in the following pages.

  42. We have practically no written record, and our monuments must tell the tale of the distant past unaided.

  43. The art of working this intractable material has been practically lost in modern times.

  44. Such tables would not enable the reader to ascertain the exact measurements, and moreover differences of a few feet cannot be considered practically important in this and similar cases.

  45. Its whole surface, so far as known to geographers, may be termed practically a level plain only slightly elevated above the level of the sea.

  46. Large quantities are also taken to the factories in the city, to be cut and planed and made into doors, window frames, furniture, and practically everything that can be made of wood.

  47. In the early years of the nineteenth century there was practically no way of communicating with the settlements on the Ohio River.

  48. Certain it is that Lady Louisa practically addressed the table, the attendant men-servants, all creation in point of fact, as well as her two immediate neighbours.

  49. And I do my best practically to apply my knowledge.

  50. His weakness regarding his eldest son had practically delivered him into her hand.

  51. Practically a good many people are dependent on me, one way and another, and I don't consider it honourable to leave their affairs at loose ends, however uncertain my own future may be.

  52. Or I've seemed to have it, which comes practically to much the same thing.

  53. Harold throwed out his chest and says he wrote it and practically made Scanlan by directin' it.

  54. Finally, he practically wrecks a swell gamblin' joint where he has gone to rescue his girl, which had been lured there by the handsome stranger from the city.

  55. Out hops friend Potts, the guy that practically give us our start in the movies.

  56. You could believe it, you're gettin' it a practically brand new car!

  57. He comes in here where I'm practically dyin' and tries to sell me a book!

  58. It is even bein' whispered around that the general, commodore or governor fox-trotted with the girls from the Follies and one-stepped with such of the fair sex as cared practically nothin' for the neighbors.

  59. The young child is practically helpless in the matter of imitation.

  60. Some sensations are often repeated, and demand practically the same response each time.

  61. It is born practically blind and deaf, without definite sense of taste or smell.

  62. Practically all increase in skill, whether physical or mental, depends on our ability to form habits.

  63. Mr. Ward thinks the localisation a late one, and that practically there is no authority for it of an older date than the romances.

  64. The artist's instinct, rather than the scholar's respect for the oldest form of the story, led him to practically restore Perceval to his rightful place as hero of the quest.

  65. The fullest entry is Perceval, which practically comprises such entries as Fisher King, Grail, Sword, Lance, etc.

  66. This is practically all the Conte du Graal has to say about him, as the continuators, whilst repeating the epithet, add no fresh details.

  67. This version, besides being practically inedited has the merit of exemplifying that association of the sword with the Lord of the Bespelled Castle to which I have already alluded.

  68. Why should people flock to pay for seats for what are practically dress-rehearsals of an unknown play?

  69. His was a faithful soul, and for years--to all intents and purposes for practically the whole of his life--he had looked up to Derek and reverenced him.

  70. We shall start rehearsing the new version to-morrow and open in Baltimore next Monday with practically a different piece.

  71. That's practically what Mr. Miller said to me when we were rehearsing one of the dances this afternoon, only he put it differently.

  72. At present, I have reason to know that she intends to leave me practically all that she possesses.

  73. Between ourselves, I am shouldering practically all the expenses of the undertaking.

  74. Charley believed, in his simple mind, that his boss was practically a dead man.

  75. That he'd practically had to kidnap Bill from his beloved Leaping Horse.

  76. The Third Edition (1905) is practically a different book, and consists of studies, each by an expert, of the various religions.

  77. The Semite has a smaller range of ideas, but he applies them more practically and more thoroughly.

  78. We say that neither experimentally, theoretically, nor practically can any good or bad result be expected from the electrical action of a tin-gold filling on tooth-bone, and neither will the pulp be disturbed.

  79. Here, naturally, there was inclusion of practically all Southern California to a point near Santa Barbara.

  80. They practically had been ordered out, after having been notified by the American Secretary of State that the protection of their country would not be extended to them.

  81. The following year Tombstone practically was abandoned and the market it had afforded was lost.

  82. From Tucson to the Pima villages on the Gila River, a distance of about 73 miles, the way was across the desert, practically on the present line of the Southern Pacific railroad.

  83. The long-headed Church President, figuring the commercial and agricultural advantages that lay in the Southwest, practically paved the way for the connection that since has come by rail with Los Angeles.

  84. The settlement practically was broken up, the people scattering, though without dissension.

  85. In those departments alone which require the use of the microscope is there much remaining to be done, and these, in truth, are practically inexhaustible.

  86. But she was now the wife of a Lancashire man, and that was enough for her heart; she attuned herself to the Earl's own devotedness, became practically a Lancashire woman, and took equal shares with him in his unflinching fervour.

  87. Indeed, I feel that while we are traveling together I must practically fill the position of father to you.

  88. On three sides this great mass of rock and masonry, which looms above the modern city at its base, is practically perpendicular.

  89. Marsh is a pitiful coward, at best, so that practically reduces their fighting force to three.

  90. It is practically certain that the name Mother Goose, as that of the genial old lady who presides over the light literature of the nursery, was established by the work of Perrault.

  91. This fable from the Old Testament is one of the very oldest on record in which a story is practically applied to a human problem.

  92. Only a few years since, most people looked upon one who tried to work out practically the problem of flying as somewhat "short" mentally.

  93. At different times in several of our cities vehicles conveying the mails have been "held up," but with the tubes, robbery is practically impossible.

  94. Hays, his predecessor, who, upon assuming management of the Post-office Department, practically dedicated it as an institution for service and not for politics or profit.

  95. Of the details of the organization aside from these things, the extent and complexities of the service, or how it accomplishes what it does, or of the executive experts operating the system, he knows practically nothing.

  96. It will be seen, therefore, that by means of the pneumatic tubes a practically continuous flow of the mails can be maintained between stations.

  97. The Post-office in the War As may be imagined, the work of the Post-office Department consequent upon the war was enormous; it participated in and did war work for practically all other departments of the Government.

  98. The Postal Savings At practically all the stations of the New York office there are postal-savings depositories which are open to the public from 8 A.

  99. The pneumatic tubes form what is practically a great loop running north in two branches from the City Hall.

  100. The scene is laid in a small town in the West Riding of Yorkshire--fortunately there is practically no dialect.

  101. Enoch and his family possessed five hundred one-pound notes issued by a bank which had failed, and so were practically worthless.

  102. The English and the French, beside these special errors, have a full share in an error that is also embraced by practically every other foreign people.

  103. We have, for example, positive laws which make it practically impossible to discuss the sex question with anything approaching honesty.

  104. Such a thing as a secure position is practically unknown among us.


  105. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "practically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    about; advantageously; almost; approximately; close; decently; effectively; efficiently; essentially; generally; handily; hard; intent; most; nearly; neighbourhood; practically; practice; properly; rightly; roughly; round; roundly; say; some; substantially; very; roughly; round; roundly; say; some; substantially; very


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    practically every; practically impossible; practically speaking