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Example sentences for "more practical"

  • The sons of the aristocracy and well-to-do classes probably learnt by a more practical method, as they were able to have private tutors, who devoted all their time to providing the necessary atmosphere.

  • Writers pleaded, in the style of Elyot and Ascham, for the teaching of Latin on more practical lines, quoting Montaigne's experience.

  • Perhaps the very reason which makes it so valuable to the student of to-day hindered its success in the sixteenth century; most students of French then preferred the shorter and more practical manuals.

  • The experiment has been tried for cycles of ages--sometimes after a more practical fashion--and it has failed oftener than it has succeeded.

  • Not a particle of passion, much less of love, so far, was at work in her heart; but in the desperation of weariness she felt tempted to try a more practical experiment in the way of excitement than she had ever yet ventured on.

  • As democratic consciousness began to arise, the demand came for a more practical institution, less exclusive and less aristocratic in character, and better adapted in its instruction to the needs of a frontier society.

  • For the times was it a more practical plan?

  • Though retaining the study of Latin, they made most of new subjects of more practical value.

  • Sidenote: The Jerome of Erasmus] But the indignation of the New Learning was diverted to more practical ends by the sudden peace.

  • There is an urgent demand at present for industrial research laboratories and experimental work all over India, and above all for better and more practical education.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    more advanced; more common; more commonly; more delicate; more effective; more elevated; more eligible; more favorable; more favourable; more feet; more formal; more frequent; more light; more like; more modern; more particular; more power; more precisely; more regular; more remarkable; more sensitive; more time; more trouble; more valuable; more will; nervous fever