How to use "practically" in a sentence

At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal

Good, Barry thinks: the place is practically empty.

He is the oldest teacher at Barnaby's: practically part of the building." Bowen stops and thinks

I practically volunteered to help you with the exhumation, and it all just fell apart from there