Sentence examples for it practically came from inspiring English sources

"As good-humored and imperturbable as you so notoriously are," he said, tongue so firmly in cheek that it practically came out the other side, Olympian intrusions of this magnitude "might also prompt a little grumbling" on these shores.

I stuck the microphone up, picked up my Martin guitar and, basically, it practically came out instantly.

Full of fight, you spring from your corner and gamely attack the antipasto, which in other parts of Italy is small enough to be served in a saucer, but in Mantua is often so big that it practically comes in an upturned dustbin lid.

And sure enough she raised a question so Jewish it practically comes with Matzo balls: "So are you single?" There's a time and a place for coming out.

The crew botched the tack and practically came to a stop, costing it almost all of its 150-meter lead.

"When he built 'Spiral Jetty,' Robert Smithson practically came full circle," Tuchman writes.

Something went wrong, and the boat practically came to a stop.

(Many will remember their first \u201cGiselle\u201d here, in 2012; the roof practically came off).

When this line was quoted at the start of the film of American Psycho in 1991, Talking Heads practically came full circle.

Jan van Kessel's "Still Life With Lemon," for instance, practically came alive in the corner of the room dedicated to Dutch and Flemish artists, revealing hidden caterpillars and other insect life that hardly seemed to be still at all.

(If you recall, biotech IPOs, which ticked along nicely for a couple of years, practically came to a standstill in the second half of last year).