Sentence examples for practically needed from inspiring English sources

You practically needed a torch".

You practically needed a decoder ring to decipher that statement.

— was so big that you practically needed smoke signals to communicate from one sink to the other.

We lost even more time because we practically needed a spelunker to find Coral Caverns, which has few signs pointing the way.

"Syriana" made sense in the end, but you practically needed a database to sort out the story elements; the movie became a weird formal experiment, testing the audience's endurance and patience.

Babbitt, Ross writes, is known to have "produced music so byzantine in construction that one practically needed a security clearance to understand it," but the experience is not as abstruse as it seems.

" 'Please, can I have a car to come to the stadium?' " 'What's your name?' " 'Safin.' " 'Can you spell it please?' " It was a decade ago yesterday that that a 19-year-old Sampras practically needed a name tag as he introduced himself as the player for his generation, and beyond.

Alice, the former Montessori school teacher, whose maternal devotion was such that when her daughter, Fanny, arrived at Yale, where the food in the Berkeley College dining hall was found wanting, she waved her wand and Chez Panissed the entire kitchen — creating such a demand to eat there you practically needed a reservation.