Sample Sentences forpracticable (auto-selected)
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But we did try very hard not to let it be known abroad that we were trying to make it practicable.† (source)
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Even the one plan that was practicable, suicide, they had no intention of carrying out.† (source)
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My relatives were constantly on the lookout for a chance of escape; but none offered that seemed practicable, and even tolerably safe.† (source)
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Before Hester Prynne could call together her thoughts, and consider what was practicable to be done in this new and startling aspect of affairs, the sound of military music was heard approaching along a contiguous street.† (source)
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The pit dropped sheerly from my feet, but a little way along the rubbish afforded a practicable slope to the summit of the ruins.† (source)
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Isabella, absorbed in her meditations, or a book, remained till the door opened; and it was too late to attempt an escape, which she would gladly have done had it been practicable.† (source)
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Of course, I do not know his situation, and I do not want him to engage a superior force, but I do want him to take that hill, if he thinks practicable, as soon as possible.† (source)
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I meant to become her governess once more, but I soon found this impracticable; my time and cares were now required by another — my husband needed them all.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "im-" in impracticable means not and reverses the meaning of practicable. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
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I know it, Meg, for I've tried it, and I seldom give advice unless I've proved its practicability.† (source)
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Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "im-" in impracticability means not and reverses the meaning of practicability. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
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Well, now and then one, whom Nature makes so impracticably simple, truthful and faithful, that the worst possible influence can't destroy it.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "im-" in impracticably means not and reverses the meaning of practicably. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
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What was the good, after all, of using up his spare hours in a vague labour called "private study" without giving an outlook on practicabilities?† (source)
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It would hardly be practicable to fold a blanket of blubber twenty centimetres thick around that framework.† (source)
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The music stopped and the guests gathered in the main hall where a small, innocent priest, adorned with the vestments of high mass, read the complicated sermon he had written exalting confused and impracticable virtues.† (source)
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He had been drawing Tom out, rather than reflecting on the practicability of his proposal.† (source)
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With such powerful and obvious motives to union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.† (source)
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