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Example sentences for "practises"

Lexicographically close words:
practicing; practise; practised; practiser; practisers; practiseth; practising; practitioner; practitioners; practize
  1. She studied her appearance in this great work as a man going out to fight a duel practises his feints and lunges.

  2. I am as sweet as a sugar-plum," said she to herself, going through her attitudes before the glass, exactly as a dancer practises her curtesies.

  3. In case they commit offenses or are guilty of practises which are punishable by death by civil or military laws.

  4. The soldier who practises such things is punished as an offender according to the appropriate laws.

  5. Where is there one who practises the most important and the easiest of His commands, to abstain from strife?

  6. Abdul neither practises nor exacts any other superstition than ablutions.

  7. And at length returning by Colchester, they vsed like practises there.

  8. But now to returne againe to the practises of the popes legats.

  9. A gentleman, also, of late hath taken great paines to search out the secret practises of this vngratious rabble.

  10. In capturing the reindeer, the Esquimaux practises no method very different from that used by "still hunters" in other parts of America.

  11. A celebrated case grew out of an attempt by a New York coffee importer and broker to continue one of these practises after the Pure Food Act made it a criminal offense.

  12. In 1907, the new Pure Food and Drugs Act came into force in the United States, making it obligatory to label all coffees correctly and causing many trade practises to be altered or thrown into the discard.

  13. Second: To eliminate or minimize abuses, methods and practises inimical to the proper conduct of business.

  14. If a boy is given to flying into a rage, and practises checking himself, until the habit is controlled, it will not be nearly so hard to control himself in other ways.

  15. The true gentleman practises Gentleness towards the weak at all times, whether they are suffering or not.

  16. That is not a very high ground on which to give up a vice; yet it is sufficient to show us that Profanity tends to degrade him who practises it.

  17. Disfranchisement in every Southern State is as fixed and determinate, as the indifference of the Negroes of those sections, or the practises of all political parties can make it.

  18. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practises more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.

  19. But whilst the Catholic Church practises and recommends the veneration and invocation of the saints, she does not teach us to honor and invoke them as we do God, nor to pray to them as we do to Him.

  20. This he employs almost entirely as an indoor exercise, and it perhaps is the one he practises more often than any other.

  21. To conclude, it hath euer to this day pleased God to prosper and defend her Maiestie, to breake the purposes of malicious enemies, of forsworne traytors, and of iniust practises and inuasions.

  22. He practises this wise economy constantly when it is a question, not of his personal property, but of the funds of his seminary.

  23. He practises this poverty in his house, in his manner of living, and in the matter of furniture and servants; for he has but one gardener, whom he lends to poor people when they have need of him, and a valet who formerly served M.

  24. Sidenote: Bishop Morton preuenteth & defeateth the practises of king Richard and Peter Landoise.

  25. He practises his experience on youth without the harshness of reproof, and in his counsel his good company.

  26. Many who adopted this unnatural view of human existence retired to the solitude of the desert, and there spent their time in practises of stern self-denial and in acts of frenzied self-torture.

  27. The red-skinned Lamanites reverted to their degraded ways, and developed a murderous hostility against their white brothers; and all manner of corrupt practises became common among both nations.

  28. Think you not that the Savior had such practises in mind, when, warning the disciples of the false claims to sanctity that would characterize the times then soon to follow, He said: "Wherefore if they shall say unto you.

  29. Madam, I fear my friend Hath falne againe in love; he practises To himself new speeches; you and he are not Broke off, I hope.

  30. Mounseiur Barnavelt, Will ye confes yet freely your bad practises And lay those Instruments open to the World, Those bloody and bold Instruments you wrought by?

  31. In England, whoever practises physick, not being a Doctor, must practise by a licence: but the doctorate conveys a licence in itself.

  32. I do not commend a society where there is an agreement that what would not otherwise be fair, shall be fair; but I maintain, that an individual of any society, who practises what is allowed, is not a dishonest man.

  33. This would probably derive from each certain advantages, or at least the ancient might temper the modern world to a little more restraint than it now practises in the celebration of private worth, especially.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "practises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.