Sentence examples for I practically killed from inspiring English sources

Low point: "For a year after I left the Royal Court to go freelance, I practically killed myself working".

"It practically killed us".

He was practically killed by overwork.

TV news practically killed the cinema "newsreel" overnight.

Modern industrial conditions, however, have practically killed this ancient and beautiful art.

And so it was with "Spinal Tap," which not only assaulted the rock documentary and left it for dead but practically killed heavy metal as a musical species.

It practically killed Ms. Hastreiter last month when she learned of her selection by the Council of Fashion Designers of America as the recipient of its prestigious Eugenia Sheppard Award.

It's so crammed with junk that when one character makes the mistake of opening its door, she is practically killed by the avalanche that spills out.

This is of a piece with the manner in which Gordon Brown's government practically killed itself to save RBS and Lloyds – then put its stakes in the arms-length UK Financial Investments, headed by a succession of bankers on sabbatical.

When the Germans invaded France, in 1940, and the family had to flee to Switzerland, Joyce practically killed himself in the vain effort to arrange for Lucia to go with them.

According to Spiegelman, the code practically killed off the "great tradition" of comics, just as the persecution of Hollywood actors and directors by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the same decade wounded the film industry.