Sentence examples for was practised from inspiring English sources
verb
To repeat as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- You should practise playing piano every day.
In this same tribe lesbianism was practised in polygamous households.
It was practised on every continent and archipelago, from the agrarian revolution onwards.
During the first millennium AD, extensive cultivation with long fallow periods was practised.
OVER nearly three centuries, the sport of sumo was practised by Japanese wrestlers alone.
Connie with her whines and feints, the grating laugh that sounded, and was, practised.
It was practised by the Germans and repeated by the victors".
News International, the UK subsidiary of News Corporation, initially insisted phone hacking was practised by only one "rogue reporter".
Historical evidence indicates that hot-iron branding of livestock was practised in Egypt as early as 2000 bce.
The original included a phrase which could be read to mean that FGM was practised within the Jewish community.
That is not the case although there is some evidence that FGM was practised within a minor Ethiopian Jewish sect.
Among the Pangwe people of present-day Cameroon and Gabon, homosexual intercourse was practised between males of all ages.
