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How to use practiced in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective

Practiced means skillful, proficient, knowledgeable or expert as a result of practice. Example: “I've practiced the piano off and on, but I still can't play very well.”

More sentences with practiced

  • I've practiced the piano off and on, but I still can't play very well.From the entry play
  • The ancient Egyptians practiced circumcision by creating a dorsal incision in the foreskin.From the entry circumcision
  • Medicine is now more often practiced in a clinical setting than in the home.From the entry clinical
  • She has practiced law in New York for twenty years.From the entry law
  • Ritual servitude is practiced in parts of Ghana.From the entry ritual servitude
  • It has been remarked that nudging is also a euphemism for psychological manipulation as practiced in social engineering.From the entry nudging
  • Kalmyks are unique, being Europeans who traditionally practiced Buddhism.From the entry Kalmyk
  • The imperialist power practiced primitivization on its colonial possessions.From the entry primitivization
  • Villages which practiced warichi periodically reassigned land to local farmers.From the entry warichi
  • The courtier had practiced his bowing.From the entry bowing
  • Both of them worked, so they practiced a sort of tag-team parenting, swapping mornings and afternoons when the kids weren’t in school.From the entry tag-team
  • This is a subtle and harmless gesture of consideration that can still be practiced today.2025 September 8, E. J. Daniels, “How to Walk Like a Gentleman”, in Gentleman's Gazette. From the entry chivalric
  • While everyone practiced safe social distancing at home, the Crush team contracted a new viral trend: CAREMONGERING!2020 spring/summer, Crush Magazine, page 19. From the entry caremongering
  • It is not until about the fourth week that extended-order drill, or actual battle formation, is practiced.2016, Walter Saul Bernstein, Keep Your Heads Down, →ISBN. From the entry extended-order drill
  • The Etruscans and Romans practiced destructive rituals to deconsecrate temples and “unfound” cities.2014, Jason Colavito, Jason and the Argonauts through the Ages, McFarland, →ISBN. From the entry unfound
  • Some doctors practiced passive eugenicide one newborn infant at a time.2013, Arthur L. Caplan, Robert Arp, Contemporary Debates in Bioethics, →ISBN. From the entry eugenicide
  • I practiced going about in circles and backing in and out of the barn.2012 02, Edmund C. Schimek, A Small Time in Space, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry about
  • Sometimes feederism is practiced within relationships and sometimes it is practiced alone.2008, Alyshia D. Bestard, Feederism: an exploratory study into the stigma of erotic weight gain. From the entry feederism
  • The British, French and Dutch navies also practiced a grimmer form of choking.2007, Darius Rejali, “Choking”, in Torture and Democracy, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 282. From the entry keelhauling
  • In her very celebratoriness she practiced a kind of sober love for community.2005, Elizabeth Alexander, “Introduction”, in The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (American Poets Project; 19), New York, N.Y.: The Library of…. From the entry celebratoriness
  • Hybridization of domestic yak with local cattle, at intermediate elevations, has been practiced for generations.2004, Wilson G. Pond, Encyclopedia of Animal Science (Print), CRC Press, →ISBN, page 899. From the entry yak
  • To begin with, it's a fascist concept; it's what Hitler and Stalin practiced.2004, George Carlin, “ZERO TOLERANCE”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 84. From the entry zero tolerance
  • The last time we practiced go-outs he did not understand the game and was frustrated.2004, Pamela Dennison, Bringing Light to Shadow: A Dog Trainer's Diary. From the entry go-out
  • Then he and Bob had to put off playing detective until they practiced on their flutophones.2004, Nancy McArthur, The Mystery of the Plant That Ate Dirty Socks, page 81. From the entry flutophone
  • How else but covertly, enigmatically, in the acroamatic manner practiced so beautifully in Holy War?1993, Laurence Lampert, Nietzsche and Modern Times: A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry acroamatic
  • Still in his shorties, he practiced whipping the case out and flipping it open.1990, Bruce Benderson, “The Mass Production of Teenagers”, in Pretending to Say No: A Novella and Eleven Stories, New York, N.Y.: Plume…. From the entry shorties
  • Psychogenetically, Byron and Presley practiced the secret art of feminine self-impairment.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry psychogenetically
  • Gift giving is another time-honored custom still widely practiced among Singapore's Chinese.1988 January–February, Suzanne L. Murphy, “Island Hopping: Singapore’s Chingay Parade: Music, Muscle and Make-Believe”, in Nancy…. From the entry hongbao
  • In the later sagas, the kind of seidr practiced has more in common with spiritualistic trance mediumship.1988, Freya Aswinn, Runes & Feminine Powers: Northern Mysteries & Magick, page 207. From the entry seidr
  • The personal desire to forget is one thing, if practiced by historians it debilitates history.1986 February 15, Denis M. Sweet, “A Sobering History from Weimar to the Ovens”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 39, page B3. From the entry debilitate
  • Maryland's football team practiced for the third straight day yesterday without its starting backfield.1983 Nov. 10, Washington Post, p. E8. From the entry backfield
  • Well, I was adequate, but typing was something I practiced in every spare moment.1975, C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, “Afterword: Footnote to “Shambleau”...and Others”, in Lester Del Rey [pseudonym; Leonard Knapp]…. From the entry quick brown fox
  • Eccles' handshake, eager and practiced and hard, seems to symbolize for him an embrace.1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 88. From the entry handshake
  • Then the Seventh moved to Fort Ord and practiced—although without full equipment—amphibious landings.1947, Murray Morgan, Bridge To Russia: Those Amazing Aleutians, New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, page 161. From the entry rumormonger
  • Whatever cures are known, and preventions that are practiced now, could have been common knowledge centuries ago.1933, David Marshall Brooks, The Necessity of Atheism. From the entry prevention
  • "But on what score?" "On the score of the deception you have practiced on us—on me."1921, Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche. From the entry on what score
  • The art of Geomancy, recommended by Raphael, a popular oneiromantic authority, is extensively practiced by the Chinese.1918, Katherine Taylor Craig, The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern. From the entry oneiromantic
  • I had a little dog who practiced all the dogly virtues.1908, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, The Outlook. From the entry dogly
  • The Geonim report that the Amora Rav practiced the ten measures of ḥassidut following his teacher Rabbi Yehudah Hanasi.2024, David Golinkin, “Should the cantor pray slowly or shorten the service?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 5. From the entry Chassidut
  • In Crete, the lyra continues to be practiced.2019, Janet Sturman, editor, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, SAGE Publications. From the entry lyra

Meaning of practiced

  1. adjective Skillful, proficient, knowledgeable or expert as a result of practice.

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Questions about practiced in a sentence

How do you use practiced in a sentence?
Practiced is used as an adjective. For example: “I've practiced the piano off and on, but I still can't play very well.”
What is a short sentence with practiced?
“The courtier had practiced his bowing.”
What does practiced mean?
Practiced means skillful, proficient, knowledgeable or expert as a result of practice.

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