Example Sentences

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Perhaps she just feels the need for change, a desire that can come on suddenly and impracticably and is often most satisfying when difficult.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2017

Well, now and then one, whom Nature makes so impracticably simple, truthful and faithful, that the worst possible influence can't destroy it.

From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The topic is treated forcibly, without the mannerism frequent among dissenters, and the rules of life enforced are not impracticably rigid.’  p. 125He has also published several sermons; ‘Christ, the Spirit of Christianity,’ is one. 

From The London Pulpit by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably rigid.

From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

Unless the crepe is prepared thick and cut into fairly short lengths, it will not bear its own weight at higher temperatures; and if it is made thick, drying is impracticably prolonged.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney