Practiced

Examples

• It will be seen, therefore, that this method of duplexing is practiced, not by varying the strength or polarity, but by sending TWO KINDS OF CURRENT over the wire. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The method most commonly practiced in working with apple trees is called bud-grafting, and consists of transferring a plate of bark, with one or more buds attached, from one tree to another. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Whenever governments enter upon foreign invasions in order to avoid civil wars, the same trick is practiced. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The process of slaughtering and dressing pork, as practiced to-day, is a continuous one, and is well illustrated in Fig. 170, in 13 operations. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He practiced with his rope and played with his sharp knife, which he had learned to keep keen by whetting upon flat stones. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Besides metallurg y they practiced the arts of weaving, dyeing, distillation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Secrecy may be advisable; but still I cannot help wondering at its being practiced by him. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• After I became a telegraph operator, he says, I practiced for a long time to become a rapid reader of print, and got so expert I could sense the meaning of a whole line at once. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Guided by practiced hands it moves swiftly out into the yard, turns sharply and enters the final inspection line. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Deftly he removed the great pelt, for he had practiced often on smaller animals. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• In discussing, for example, education in music he raises the question how far the young should be practiced in the playing of instruments. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The practiced knights from Palestine made holyday sport of carving the awkward men-at-arms into chops and steaks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Though but ten years old he was fully as strong as the average man of thirty, and far more agile than the most practiced athlete ever becomes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• This use of leaven for raising bread has been practiced for ages. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Solon is supposed to have practiced it; and even Lycurgus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Vegetables and both shade and fruit trees are being grown in districts where dry farming is practiced. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A little later, when Edison was employed as operator in the railroad office at Indianapolis, he practiced receiving newspaper reports in his spare hours at night. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Twenty years ago the Populists were hated and feared as if they practiced black magic. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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