Sentence examples for only practiced for from inspiring English sources

Thiel, who has a law degree but only practiced for seven months, was not seen as a particularly conservative choice.

We had just come off a three-week Christmas break and had only practiced for a week.

It was only practiced for about 20 years – during and shortly after the reign of the pharaoh Akhenaten.

Mr. Kessel said he didn't sing in the shower and only practiced for this moment on stage for 15 minutes at a dress rehearsal.

"He would fool around with us outside practice, but when the time to work arrived he would be ruthless," said Baía. "We only practiced for one hour each day, yet those hours were the most intense I've ever seen".

A third line of arguing for the importance of swimming (apart from drowning prevention and health advancement) adheres to the civilising effect of the practice, swimming "is only practiced for fun, but also to cultivate civility" (Tímarit Hins íslenzka bókmentafélags 1904, p. 59) and thus a vital part of the civilising process in generating what Norbert Elias (1968) terms a 'second nature'.

Homework is now only practice for tests, and the curriculum is simply "material" to be tested, not "content" for its own sake.

They never could have guessed they would watch daughters not only practice soccer, and not only practice for Jordan's Under-17 national team, but for an Under-17 World Cup coming in September in Jordan, the first female soccer World Cup in the region.

It's okay if you only practice for 30 minutes.

Bird graduated with a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1827 but practiced for only a year.

Trained as a doctor, Faria only practiced medicine for two years before his father died and he took the helm of the family's Banco Real, transforming it into one of the largest banks in Brazil.