Sentence examples for practised upon a from inspiring English sources
Michael Haneke's new movie is an Americanised replica-remake of his 1997 cult shocker Funny Games: just as before, it's an icy ordeal of sadism, a macabre vivisectional experiment in pure cruelty, practised upon a bland upper-middle-class family - two parents, tousle-haired kid, adorable dog - which thinks itself safe in its prosperous cocoon.
This is particularly the case when lumping is practised upon the time-scales of reaction dynamics.
This could look like we're being practised upon, dupes of unconscionable skill.
On 15 January, Tobias Smollett published a disparaging twenty-eight-page pamphlet entitled A Faithful Narrative of the base and inhuman Arts that were lately practised upon the Brain of Habbakuk Hilding, Justice, Dealer and Chapman, who now lies at his own House in Covent-Garden, in a deplorable State of Lunacy; a dreadful Monument of false Friendship and Delusion.
Arthur Conan Doyle practised as a doctor.
"I've practised quite a few times with him.
However, you can practise without a bar.
I still practise, in a different forum.
Does she practise as a priest?
His family summons him to practise on a native.
