Sentence examples for were practising for from inspiring English sources

In the spitting rain and a gusting wind, Glasgow University's young nationalists were practising for what may be the most important day of their lives.

The lanky, long-limbed Cope strode around the stage as if he were practising for a fight sequence in The Matrix, bellowing into his headset microphone.

As we walked through the nave admiring the clerestory windows and the corbels and whatnot (who doesn't love a bit of perpendicular Gothic?), a choir were practising for an imminent wedding, and the clear, bright soprano notes were floating up into air.

Woolf's A Room of One's Own had been published in 1929 and she reminded some 200 young women, "well dressed keen & often beautiful", that they were "practising for the first time in history I know not how many different professions... you have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men".

Britain's Davis Cup team were practising for the first time at the venue for the final last night as officials confirmed that the tie would go ahead in Ghent despite nearby Brussels remaining on maximum alert because of the threat of terrorist attacks.

In response, Pyongyang displayed a show of strength by launching four ballistic missiles at once — suggesting they were practising for an attack on U.S. military bases in Japan.

In the biodiversity rich regions of western South Africa transhumance grazing strategies were practised for thousands of years.

Within the HK cross, full sib, cousin or random mating were practised for two generations in order to create new inbreeding (IBF) at a fast rate.

Israel was practising for about an hour.

Everyone else has been practising for at least a year.

Larry was poetic and intellectual; he was practising for when he was to become Lawrence Durrell.