Sentence examples for had practiced her from inspiring English sources

My mind strayed to Maira Kalman's selections, and a numbered sampler upon which a nineteenth-century girl had practiced her stitches.

For the past four years, she has practiced her hip-hop moves at the Def Dance Skool in Seoul, which is just one such school among thousands in South Korea.

Kvitova's smile and easygoing demeanor had always translated, but she has practiced her English by reading British children's books like "The Wind in the Willows" and "The Secret Garden," which her public relations manager Katie Spellman gave her.

Colchicum was discovered by the ancient Greeks and named by them for Colchi the country in Asia Minor where Medea is supposed to have practiced her black arts and where meadow saffron was first found.

We can listen to a song, and even if we know nothing about music, it's obvious whether or not the musician has practiced her craft.

Sarah Palin gave a rambling, disjointed nonanswer as she desperately tried to segue back into one of the stock answers she had practiced with her handlers.

Indira concedes afterwards that she was nervous, but had practiced beforehand with her mother.

To meet her family's charge that he had practiced magic to win her affection, he wrote the Apologia ("Defense"), the major source for his biography.

Nonetheless, Maria also owned pictures and her brother had practiced as a painter in Rome, where he died at the age of 26.

"I had practiced and practiced.

(One lawyer who has practiced in her courtroom said that the judge, Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, takes the subway to work).