Sentence examples for practised long from inspiring English sources

It's also true that practices that cultivate this kind of attention were practised long before there was such a thing as Buddhism, and its benefits have been extolled by wise people throughout human history.

He not only enthusiastically practised long hours every day, but he also started working on his skills at an extraordinarily young age.

Sutcliffe's fingers would often blister during long rehearsals, as he had never practised long enough for his fingers to become calloused, even though he had previously played acoustic guitar.

In areas where culling or other means of brucellosis control are not practised, long-term chronic infections are often associated with carpal hygromas and infertility [ 7].

The Prince of Wales said that he was "thrilled", adding: "They have been practising long enough".

They are not practising long enough to learn caution about drawing quick conclusions and making hasty interpretations: people and their relationships are so very complicated.

He runs, not wanting to see the woman, and later recalls the circumstances of their relationship: he had not been practising long in the country town when he was called to visit a nun, named Eterna, in the local convent.

Then more wars came, and I suppose an addiction grew and grew, because I got good at them, the way one gets good at a tennis game if you practise long and hard enough.

Still, having suggested a decade ago that the Dutch football team were hopeless at penalty shoot-outs because they were "too arrogant" to practise – long before he suggested Twitter was for "clowns" – Van Commenee could be excused for believing that the British psyche is naturally downbeat.

Earlier, Prince Charles said he was "thrilled, obviously", at the news, joking: "They've been practising long enough".

"It was a shame because these lads practise long and often: you can see how seriously they take it, practising pie-eating late into the night on every street corner in Wigan town centre". The cooked dimensions of the official competition pie should be a diameter of 12cm (5in) and a depth of 3.5cm (1.5in).