Sentence examples for a bit of practical from inspiring English sources

Pete Stanton has £9,000 to spend on a  performance estate for a bit of practical fun.

There's much to be taken from its briskly told story about how interlocked causes can still advance each other with a bit of practical ingenuity.

"I had the idea that doing a degree was a lot of theory and only a bit of practical, and I'm a practical person.

The infamous pile of bodies was also a bit of practical magic, as they could only afford one pile, which was repurposed to stand in for multiple piles.

In a rare 1966 interview with the German news magazine Der Spiegel, he was pressed to offer a bit of practical wisdom that philosophy might bestow on a troubled age.

I was also able to give him a bit of practical advice: always get your dresser to put the padded bra over the radiator before you put it on, because cold padding on your chest is a startling sensation.

Her Pershing T-shirt was "a bit of a practical joke, really.

"As well as an editorial and creative challenge, there is a bit of a practical challenge," she said, referring to her push for more international hits.

Dorgon plays the C-melody saxophone, and he's a bit of a practical joker; one of his recent albums gave no information other than to say that it was recorded in 1949 aboard a ship called the Bhutan, with the Lennie Tristano Big Band.

Long known for both a sly sense of humor and also being a bit of a practical joker, Dr. Cohen over the years took to publishing with a mysterious co-author, the imaginary "Professor James Finnegan" (who is cited twice in Dr. Cohen's Wikipedia entry).

"Now you see a bit of tension between the practical fishermen and the theoreticians," Mr. Visser said.