She had wanted to kill Nagorny, or at the very least prevent him from becoming a threat to her, which practically amounted to the same thing.

They left the old cell block where the prisoner was confined in what practically amounted to solitary.

Under the circumstances, he thought, her comment practically amounted to a vote of confidence.

Food the Englishman could not have eaten, but his craving for water amounted practically to torture.

This amounted practically to the end of the party.

The latter form is more common and practically amounts to challenge-response authentication.

"It practically amounts to that," he replied.

Most residents built houses upwards of the shoreline from what practically amounted to their own private sandy beach.

It isn't really being presented as a demand, but it practically amounts to one, to all intents and purposes.

This distinction amounted practically to an exclusion of the adiaphora from the field of morals.