ADVERB
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in every practical sense
the rest are for all practical purposes useless
to all intents and purposes the case is closed
How To Use to all intents and purposes In A Sentence
- To all intents and purposes it is a prison within a prison. The Sun
- To all intents and purposes it is a prison within a prison. The Sun
- She is loved in Vauxhall constituency for it - I have been out canvassing for her and to all intents and purposes it is the Kate Hoey vote that we were getting out not the Labour vote. Archive 2008-02-10
- His fluency in girl-talk clearly marks him out as a metrosexual, in touch with his feminine side, which bodes well, as Lette is, to all intents and purposes, treating the evening as a hen night.
- To all intents and purposes it is a prison within a prison. The Sun
- He was to all intents and purposes heterosexual… but then he found he had a crush on one particular bloke in his office.
- Pharaon is to all intents and purposes a simpleton, a virtual village idiot.
- You're walking down neural pathways that are real, to all intents and purposes. Times, Sunday Times
- To all intents and purposes he had already died. The Sun
- Tintoretto directs the viewer's main attention to what, to all intents and purposes, is an attribute of Saint George.