1.  About the only practical thing I came up with was that I probably ought to start smoking again.

2.  That was the practical thing to do.

3.  Erm what I wore yesterday and the day before and also practical things like that.

4.  However, while it was Kennedy who aroused the public, it was Johnson who got the space program through Congress and did all the practical things.

5.  Instead, the DeMarcos did the practical thing.

6.  It was probably more of a practical thing, too.

7.  It seemed the practical thing to do.

8.  Jeff, who works in human resources for Delta Air Lines, has learned practical things he will pass on to Adanech.

9.  Letting my hair grow seemed like a practical thing to do in preparation for a recent dog-sled trek in northern Minnesota.

10.  Lillian Anderson, the spirited narrator of this collection of wonderfully wry-melancholy stories, knows several practical things.