How to Use impractical in a Sentence

impractical

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  • But the finicky process takes about three days and can be done only in labs cleared to handle such pathogens, rendering it impractical.
    — NBC News, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Celebrities are photographed often in outfits that may seem a bit impractical for everday wear.
    — Lindsey Greenfeld, PEOPLE.com, 21 Feb. 2022
  • But also because banning bottles would be impractical for a country that exports them.
    — By Aryn Baker/lautoka, Fiji , TIME, 3 July 2024
  • That means Alabama filling its transfer losses on a one-to-one basis would be impractical.
    — Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Other families you might not be allowed to be impractical or whimsical.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • Ideas that start off seeming dangerous and impractical get refined into those with great utility.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2022
  • What’s known and functional has been rendered impractical and pointless, which is fascinating but also kind of scary.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Of course, like a high-performance sports car, this phone is completely impractical as a daily driver in the US.
    — Sascha Segan, PCMAG, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Even compared to other sports cars, the 4C was extremely impractical.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 9 Feb. 2022
  • More often than not, walking or hitchhiking are the only viable options, and because towns can be dozens of miles away from the nearest trail access, walking can prove impractical.
    — Mary Beth Skylis, Outside Online, 17 Feb. 2022
  • This made the method impractical for me and for most people who owe the IRS money.
    — Jay L. Zagorsky, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The state house speaker has called the plan impractical.
    — Casey Tolan, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
  • If that seems a bit impractical, here are a few things to try instead.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Jennifer Lopez just stepped out in what’s got to be one of her most impractical ’fits yet.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The car was enormous but Rio could not be dwarfed by his impractical ride.
    — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The ideas were seen as impractical to some who were involved in the discussions.
    — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 23 June 2023
  • These may be rewarding in the short term, but too impractical and expensive to save oil and gas in the long term.
    — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But for many of these problems, finding a solution in the first place seemed to take an impractical amount of time.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2022
  • In recent seasons, the over-the-top looks seen on the show, which can verge on the impractical, have become memes on social media.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
  • It’s now impractical not to pass some of these costs on, management said.
    — Tiffany Ap, Quartz, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Thin impractical scarves do seem to be making a comeback for spring.
    — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 19 Jan. 2024
  • However, these plans were scrapped and deemed impractical since divers would be unable to safely reach the depths of the shipwreck.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Mack’s parents may have taught him to stay close to the nest, but that’s terribly impractical in winter.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Gone are the impractical thin, rock-solid slip-on sandals and house slippers.
    — Grace Wu, Good Housekeeping, 7 Mar. 2023
  • But aid groups say replacing the agency is impractical in the short or medium term.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The location seemed ideal at first but turned out to be impractical.
    — Helen Purcell Montag, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022
  • They’d been sold in pre-assembled kits that would have been impractical to repackage.
    — Lori Rozsa, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • As the moon clashes with Neptune, those who once supported your dreams now call them impractical.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Sometimes—as is the case for the ocean floor off Los Angeles—conditions have changed so much that restoration is impractical.
    — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Studios now seem more willing to license their titles for collectors’ editions; in the past the answer would be a flat no or an impractical yes — the kind that comes with astronomical expectations.
    — Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 9 July 2024

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