It is a common practice in this country to give calomel, on account of the readiness with which it can be administered it being small in quantity, and nearly tasteless.
If the scald be either on the leg or on the foot, a common practice is to take the shoe and the stocking off; in this operation the skin is also at the same time very apt to be removed.
It is a common practiceto cram a wet-nurse with food, and to give her strong ale to drink, to make good nourishment and plentiful milk!
The oil is carried in the crank-case, as is common practice, but the normal oil level is below the point where it will be reached by the connecting rod.
It is common practiceto bring the jets into action progressively by some form of mechanical connection with the throttle or by automatic valves.
In the South Sea Islands it is a common practice to protect property by making it taboo, and the tabooing of an object is, as Dr.
The murder of female infants, whether by the direct employment of homicidal means, or by exposure to privation and neglect, has for ages been a common practice, or even a genuine custom, among various Hindu castes.
It seems to be a common practicein certain parts of Africa to swear by some fetish.
Or, it is a common practice, after taking off a crop of cotton and indigo, in the month of October, to sow wheat, in order to have the land again clear in the month of May or June.
The art of distillation, however, is very well known, and in common practice.
At the island of Punchong kechil, on which our settlement stands, it is a common practice to moor the vessels by a hawser to a tree on shore.
To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
Based on your knowledge and information about the science of paraffin tests, do you know whether or not it is a common practice or not a common practice to make it of one cheek?
Any particular reason it is not a common practice, that you can think of or know of?
Skinning poultry instead of plucking the feathers seems to have been quite a common practicein old times.
For hundreds of years it had been quite a common practice to preserve eggs in various ways.
To avoid so great excess of dynamo capacity it is common practice to install more than two generators.
Before placing it in the press the last time the common practice is to pare the edges smooth and sightly.
To ascertain this point a common practice is to fill a small bottle with the copaiba, and to leave it out of doors all night in an exposed situation.
A thing is common in which many persons share or partake; as, a common practice.
To spit for luck upon the first coin earned or gained by trading, before putting it into the pocket or purse, is a common practice.
In ancient Egypt the cemeteries were overshadowed by thick sycamores; and probably in nearly every country the planting of trees and shrubs (or flowering plants) on the graves of the dead is or has been a common practice.
A common practice for an elderly bachelor of Weihaiwei is to entrust a friend in Peking or some other large centre of population with the task of procuring a wife for him by the simple expedient of cash-purchase.
It is a common practice to place registers near the inner corner of the room, in order to economize in conducting pipe, in horizontal runs.
A common practice is to apply one of the rules in use and then under conditions of exceptional exposure, to add to the amount thus calculated as experience may dictate.
In specifying the capacity of a house-heating plant it is common practice to require the boiler to be of such size as will easily heat a definite number of square feet of radiating surface.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common practice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
