Sentences with practice
prac·tice
P p - Some firms have cut workers' pay below the level set in their contract, a practice that is illegal in Germany.
- She was taking all three of her daughters to basketball practice every day.
- SYNONYMY NOTE: practice implies repeated performance for the purpose of learning or acquiring proficiency [he practiced on the violin every day; practice makes perfect]; exercise implies a putting to or keeping at work [to exercise one's rights] or refers to activity, often of a systematic, formal kind, that trains or develops the body or mind [gymnastic exercises]; drill1 suggests disciplined group training in which something is taught by constant repetition [to drill a squad, an arithmetic drill]
- ...the practice of internal medicine. [+ of]
- The new doctor's practice was miles away from where I lived.
- It was his practice to rise at six
- He set up practice as a lawyer
- He put his plans into practice
- To practice thrift
- To practice batting
- To practice law
- To practice one's religion
- To practice on the organ
- To make a practice of being early
- The practice of tipping for services
- Cheerleading practice
- To be out of practice
- The practice of a theory
- The practice of law
- To buy another's law practice
- Office practice.
- It is not the practice here for men to wear long hair.
- Practice makes perfect.
- She refused to play the piano, because she was out of practice.
- To put a scheme into practice; the shameful practices of a blackmailer.
- She plans to set up practice in her hometown.
- The doctor wanted his daughter to take over his practice when he retired.
- To practice a strict regimen.
- To practice one's religion.
- To practice law.
- To practice the violin.
- To practice at shooting.