TECHNICAL in a Sentence

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55 example sentences for TECHNICAL, such as:

1. Connie's young man was musical, Hilda's was technical.
2. The technical details mean nothing to the average punter.
3. Your desired precision is too technical and also far too wordy.
4. Creativity and originality are more important than technical skill.
5. In spite of some technical hitches, the first program was a success.

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 Meanings and Examples of TECHNICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
technical
 a.  having special skill or knowledge; according to principle; formal rather than practical; relating to technique
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Connie's young man was musical, Hilda's was technical.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  It was far more interesting than art, than literature, poor emotional half-witted stuff, was this technical science of industry.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
3  He would rather have been with his technical books, or his pit-manager, or listening-in to the radio.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
4  Then, going up a broad staircase, we came to what may once have been a gallery of technical chemistry.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
5  He used the phrase broadly and loudly as he often used technical expressions, as if he wished his hearer to understand that they were used by him without conviction.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  As there is no motive for concealment, I am permitted to use them, and accordingly send you a rescript, simply omitting technical details of seamanship and supercargo.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  To him the Southern problem is simply that of making efficient workingmen out of this material, by giving them the requisite technical skill and the help of invested capital.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  Those delivered before the coloured people had for their main object the impressing upon them the importance of industrial and technical education in addition to academic and religious training.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
9  Kennicott was conversational and technical regarding gluten and cockle-cylinders and No.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  Though she became Vida Wutherspoon technically, and though she certainly had no ideals about the independence of keeping her name, she continued to be known as Vida Sherwin.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
11  This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain's, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
12  Now, as the harem of whales is called by the fishermen a school, so is the lord and master of that school technically known as the schoolmaster.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.
13  I suppose that you will admit that the action is morally justifiable, though technically criminal.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
14  He was an old man, who, at the age of nearly sixty, had postponedly encountered that thing in sorrow's technicals called ruin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 112. The Blacksmith.
15  Her 'friend' was a Clifford Chatterley, a young man of twenty-two, who had hurried home from Bonn, where he was studying the technicalities of coal-mining.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  The technical details mean nothing to the average punter.
17  The engineer was an eager participant in technical co - operation.
18  Using the methods offered by the new technical media, he must become a self-aware participant in the total apparatus of production.
19  There are still a few technical problems/obstacles/hurdles to be surmounted before the product can be put on sale to the public.
20  In spite of some technical hitches, the first program was a success.
21  They've had technical problems - at any rate that's what they told me.
22  Some resource will also be needed to deal with technical problems and enquiries from sales and commercial departments.
23  The programme is now seven years behind schedule as a result, firstly of increased costs, then of technical problems.
24  Creativity and originality are more important than technical skill.
25  Ironically, the expensive technical equipment seems intact and the weather conditions are perfect.
26  Here's the study's technical explanation of why the location of the western ridge is so important for determining regional rainfall.
27  This web includes an excellent page describing in technical detail the differences between different accordion keyboards - piano, chromatic, and uniform.
28  Your desired precision is too technical and also far too wordy.
29  Suddenly, the new supervisor is now charged with a whole new range of responsibilities, many of which have little to do with technical expertise.
30  The ASX yesterday halted trading for four hours after detecting a technical issue.