Example Sentences

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"As soon as I stood on the stage, it was really scary but everything I had been practicing went exactly as I wanted it to."

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2025

St. Bonaventure coach Joe Goyeneche called for a trick play that the team had been practicing every Wednesday for four weeks.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2023

Memmelaar, meanwhile, had been practicing with the second team at guard after appearing in four games last season.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2023

It is likely that agriculturalists in the region adopted barley and wheat cultivation techniques from the Near East, where people had been practicing agriculture for thousands of years by this point.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Like I had been practicing for wallowing in it my whole life.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri