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Example sentences for "for all practical purposes"

  • In fact, for all practical purposes it was her only major industry.

  • There are three parties, but each is dominated by the fifty families, and election laws are such that for all practical purposes it’s impossible to start another party.

  • For all practical purposes, that’s what it was.

  • For all practical purposes, therefore, Prunoids are phenolphthalein.

  • For all practical purposes it is essentially a camphorated talcum powder.

  • In either case apprenticeship was, for all practical purposes, compulsory; but here the similarity ends.

  • In type number one, then, there is, for all practical purposes, a complete absence of supervision.

  • It is further claimed that “for all practical purposes it is nontoxic and nonirritating” and that “it has none of the undesirable features such as is the case with the iodids and the organic preparations of iodin, proprietary or otherwise.

  • Yet we are justified in thinking of this interesting expedition as, for all practical purposes, the beginning of the long and stubborn struggle of Germans to possess the fruitful British isle.

  • For all practical purposes, however, he may be regarded as occupying the emperor's position, since all that was lacking was the performance of a more or less perfunctory ceremony.

  • The students of the French universities were regarded as, for all practical purposes, members of the clergy (clerici) and thus to be distinguished from laymen.

  • It is even doubtful that the film medium will survive as an alternative to the new media because it is, for all practical purposes, inefficient.

  • If seeing is believing, then believing everything we see in our day is a challenge for which we are, for all practical purposes, ill prepared.

  • It now bridges dramatically between life and death, in a world where the currency of both life and death is, for all practical purposes, devaluated.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for all practical purposes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dense mass; dislodge them; for each; for nothing; for she; for their; for they are foolishness unto him; for two; for whom; for your; forced loan; foreign government; foreign influence; formal declaration; former existence; former lives; former page; former president; former time; former times; former voyage; formerly used; fortnight since; forty miles; forty minutes; forward policy