Sentence examples for in a practical purpose from inspiring English sources

Then, we can use the above heat capacity per unit volume for a small-scale region in a practical purpose.

It shows the riverbed of the Arno near Florence and was made in about 1504 for a practical purpose.

WHILE dog boots might look like the sort of fashion indignity that Paris Hilton would inflict on Tinkerbell, it turns out that in winter they serve a practical purpose.

This practice is apparently strong in Jewish mourning tradition and may have a practical purpose -- to prevent vanity in the mourners so they can't reflect their own appearance, rather forcing them to focus on remembering and respecting the departed.

Haroche said that his research, like the early work on lasers or nuclear magnetic resonance, was done without a practical purpose in mind.

The fencing serves a practical purpose – in a ring, fighters would slip through the ropes while they were grappling – but the phrase cagefighting came to carry all the wrong connotations, largely because the UFC wanted it that way.

Graphic designers have long been fascinated by the vernacular signs that appear in public places, generally with a practical purpose, whether it is to sell something, to identify our whereabouts or to alert us to danger.

This obsessive chore serves a practical purpose in Brush's scheme of things.

He added: "Although it has served a practical purpose in the past it was very much an eyesore.

The origin of the belief in malevolent water horses has been proposed as originating in human sacrifices once made to appease gods associated with water, but narratives about the kelpie also served a practical purpose in keeping children away from dangerous stretches of water, and warning young women to be wary of handsome strangers.

Bioactive peptides can be computationally modeled, genetically manipulated, and expressed in different systems to serve a practical purpose.