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

As the rest of the island seems impracticably swampy, this checked our reconnoissance; but there can be little doubt the rebels are evacuating.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Cox, Jacob Dolson

And, mind you, there is something very heroic—very impracticably heroic, but magnanimous all the same—in your idea that you might abandon all the popularity and position you have won as a mere matter of sentiment.

From Prince Fortunatus by Black, William

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