Sentence examples for despite having practiced from inspiring English sources

Kennedy High and finished the 100 meters in 10.66 seconds last spring at the Pac-12 Conference championships, earning sixth place despite having practiced only a few days before the meet.

Despite not having practiced with his new team, Radmanovic hit two jumpers in a 15-2 run that broke open a close game.

I don't know Folsom despite my having practiced law in Denver for nearly 30 years.

Despite the Austrian prohibitions against crossbreeding, other countries have practiced this to some extent.

"I had practiced and practiced.

The Afghan skiers have always dominated, despite having only practiced the sport for a few seasons.

Speedy Ortiz, which hails from Western Massachusetts, played the album start to finish, despite "having never practiced that or done that," said Sadie Dupuis, the wry frontwoman, and the band's main engine.

Despite having not practiced Wing Chun since the invasion began (in order to conserve what little food his family had to survive), he proceeds to mercilessly crush each of them with a brutal barrage of his martial art mastery, showing none of the restraint he exhibited in previous engagements.

Despite having to practice and play the game amid heightened security, the players still managed to maintain their concentration, convincing Accorsi that Super Bowl XXXVI was special.

Some thus use a common language despite having dissimilar practices.

For example, Nathan and Koedinger (2000) investigated the problem-solving strategies for word problems of high school students who had taken, or were currently, taking Algebra I. Despite having extensive practice with algebra, the majority utilized guess-and-check or work-backwards methods (i.e., reversing the mathematical steps given in a problem to determine the algebraic unknown).