Sentence examples for practiced upon from inspiring English sources

As Mr. Humes writes, "The most extraordinary medicine happens here, practiced upon some of the most extraordinary patients there are".

True horror was to be found in the malformations of the human mind, and in the graphic violence practiced upon human bodies.

When we first meet him, he is still at large, in the high summer of his crimes, practicing psychiatry in Baltimore, rather than having it practiced upon him.

He's also up against a deadline: in less than twenty-four heurs, hashas been told, the madman's black arts will be forcibly practiced upon the world.

Think of the visual arts, and the kind of referencing and quotation we find in the modernists (Picasso), then practiced upon the modernists with even more vigor by their successors (Hockney on Picasso).

The men I employed and dismissed, the experiments I made myself, the frauds that were practiced upon me, almost disheartened me; but … I treasured up each little step that was made in the right direction, the hints of naval officers, and the opinions of the different boards that gave the signals a trial.

Navy considered Hopkins to be "a small eastern college to practice upon", instead of a serious opponent.

"There is one difference in medicine, though: It is people we practice upon".

Rheticus was accused by the father of a Leipzig student of practicing "upon him the shameful and cruel vice of sodomy," so perhaps Ms. Sobel's use of this particular indiscretion is justified.

In many baboon species, immigrant alpha males often practice infanticide upon arrival to a new troop.

When I was young, I practiced basketball for hour upon hour.