Below you will find example sentences with "practical purposes". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Practical Purposes in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: purposes
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 5
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 23.7 words

Words in this phrase

practical purposes

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • practical can mean: Relating to, or based on, practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis. Frequent word
  • purposes can mean: plural of purpose Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

also for practical purposes like support 1× also serve practical purposes to protect 1× elite for practical purposes related to 1× for all practical purposes 1× for all practical purposes all random 1× for all practical purposes chief executive 1× for all practical purposes entirely dead 1× for all practical purposes is considered 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

for all practical 3× for practical purposes 2× a harvard science 1× alchemists were contracted 1× as a consequence 1× bandanas are frequently 1×

Common sentence endings:

all practical purposes 1× and personal integrity 1× cuppa on them 1× few people respond 1× for practical purposes 1× full friday night 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

dead 3× people 2× hold 2× off 2× season 2× serve 2× too 2× either 2× able 2× tissue 2× friday 2× full 2×

Related phrases

commercial purposes practical applications practical solutions practical training

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around purposes:

commercial purposes 7×

Just before it in the phrase index:

practical applications powerful enough power utility power transmission power supply power struggle

Just after it in the phrase index:

practical solutions practical training practice sessions practice squad prayer book prayer service

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

practical applications practical solutions practical training

Same ending:

commercial purposes

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "practical purposes" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 23.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as also for practical purposes like support, also serve practical purposes to protect, dead, people and hold stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with commercial purposes, practical applications, practical solutions and commercial purposes, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with practical purposes

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Ruiz's affinity for Snickers actually has some practical purposes. (10 words)

Furthermore, many of the poses serve practical purposes in addition to looking cool. (13 words)

For all practical purposes, that shield has been shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

For all practical purposes the point assignments are all 1. While the voter is asked to rank the candidates in order, when the votes are counted, the ranking is, in essence, ignored. (32 words)

It is expected that as many as 2,000 young people per week could attend – and not just to enjoy themselves, but also for practical purposes like support, training and mentoring. (31 words)

Pet clothes are great for holidays like Halloween, but they can also serve practical purposes to protect pets from ground that's too hot, cold, or even too wet and muddy. (31 words)

Example sentences (20)

A Harvard Science Review article in September said “for all practical purposes all random sampling is dead” because so few people respond.

And it's one that we would probably say we'd have to essentially hold off for practical purposes until we get through our second line study.

For practical purposes, it took effect during the youth season in early October and the first part of firearm deer season on Nov. 17-19.

Furthermore, many of the poses serve practical purposes in addition to looking cool.

It is expected that as many as 2,000 young people per week could attend – and not just to enjoy themselves, but also for practical purposes like support, training and mentoring.

For practical purposes it’s a micro-texture fabric desk pad and coaster set, put your keyboard and cuppa on them.

Pet clothes are great for holidays like Halloween, but they can also serve practical purposes to protect pets from ground that's too hot, cold, or even too wet and muddy.

Even Newton's laws are still valid for the envelope and degree of accuracy for which they were formed, which covers most of our practical purposes on Earth.

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Except for the left parties, all other political groups are either owned by an individual, a family or an institution for all practical purposes.

For all practical purposes, that shield has been shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity.

For all practical purposes the point assignments are all 1. While the voter is asked to rank the candidates in order, when the votes are counted, the ranking is, in essence, ignored.

For all practical purposes, the project falls outside the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction; the property is located in the Town of Richmond.

Ruiz's affinity for Snickers actually has some practical purposes.

Still, Sestan and his team were able to culture, or grow, active cells from that tissue — tissue that was, for all practical purposes, entirely dead.

This Friday the 13th full moon won’t technically reach peak illumination until 12:32 a.m. Eastern time on Saturday, but for all practical purposes is considered full Friday night.

While the Bill is dead for all practical purposes, Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s refusal to entertain any demand of the protesters has led to a protracted stand-off.

Since BDS came on the scene, they have, for all practical purposes, no longer been able to work together.

Alchemists were contracted by the elite for practical purposes related to mining, medical services, and the production of chemicals, medicines, metals, and gemstones.

As a consequence, for most practical purposes, the difference between the total and seawater scales is very small.

Bandanas are frequently printed in a paisley pattern and are most often used to hold hair back, either as a fashionable head accessory, or for practical purposes.

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