Sentence examples for practically owned from inspiring English sources

He practically owned the place.

Plantations had jails, and political seats were practically owned by families.

"And what you will hear is that Don King practically owned the defendant, Lee Sr".

ROME — For two decades, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has not just led Italy's powerful center-right political movement; he has practically owned it.

Since 1984, she has practically owned this part, performing it dozens of times with orchestras around the world and recording it for Deutsche Grammophon.

Risë Stevens, the internationally renowned mezzo-soprano who had a 23-year career with the Metropolitan Opera, where she practically owned the role of Carmen during the 1940s and '50s, died on Wednesday at her home in Manhattan.

His wife practically owns the place.

First there are the A-list events that practically own certain weekends and that can't be encroached upon.

As Mercutio (a role that in alternate castings Mr. Cornejo practically owns and will reprise on Monday), Craig Salstein is a poker buddy, a cutup.

How to defeat a gang that doesn't just openly recruit and operate inside Oklahoma's prisons, but practically owns the institutions?

The American practically owns this event, having won the 200m butterfly at every Olympic Games and World Championships he has swam in since 2001.