Practicing
['præktɪsɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Practice
Editor: Trudy
Examples
- The next day Tarzan was practicing with his bow and arrows at the first gleam of dawn. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- A practicing surgeon and apothecary of Penzance, Bingham Borlase, was willing to take Davy as an apprentice, and the youth began work and study in his office. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Today shepherds tending their flocks upon these same hills of Syria may be seen practicing with slings like those of David. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Therefore, five gentlemen were appointed to prepare the document, and the fifty others went sadly smiling about the ship--practicing. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Commissioner of Labor, and a well-known publicist, then practicing patent law in Boston. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Trudy