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Examples of purpose sentences. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use purpose in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for purpose.

• I took you on purpose. (8)
• Perhaps he had put it there on purpose! (8)
• He knew their purpose. (10)
• It seems on purpose for us. (22)
• You put them to this purpose? (10)
• She knew their purpose at once. (12)
• My belief is, you do it on purpose. (10)
• Remember it is to serve one purpose. (10)
• I went to her lodgings for the purpose. (8)
• I purpose that he goo and zet down again. (8)
• The purpose, as you see, is a double one. (12)
• We were asked on purpose to be introduced. (4)
• That will accomplish the purpose you seek. (22)
• I said everything I could think of, to no purpose. (10)
• For what purpose could he have called on my father? (10)
• But Paris seems an unusual place for such a purpose. (12)
• White wood and white pine are ideal for this purpose. (17)
• I went, of course, for the same purpose, somewhere else. (10)
• It is with that purpose that I wish to enter the service. (1)
• And she longed to be able to say something more to the purpose. (4)
• Fifty thousand écus poured into the Treasury for this purpose. (19)
• Then she unfolded more plainly her purpose of building in Forest Park. (13)
• He came to the Abbey two evenings ago, on purpose to consult me about it. (4)
• I said from the first he seemed as if thrown into her way for a purpose. (10)
• They were not dealing with a Forsyte, reasonably tenacious of his purpose. (8)
• The eyes were gray and steadfast, not moving except with definitive purpose. (1)
• The great volume, the indefatigable purpose of the river, held the mind in chain. (2)
• What would your governess and your uncle say to see them used for such a purpose? (4)
• It was disloyal to Derek and to her purpose, which was to bring comfort to poor Tryst. (8)
• The Lord, young gentlemen, has not thrown you into my hands for no purpose whatsoever. (10)
• The reflection that it has been to no purpose will neither scare you nor instruct you. (10)
• I dare say that my father tried to make us understand the satirical purpose of the book. (9)
• I kept up a costly household for the sole purpose of seeing him and having him near me. (10)
• She had studied medicine for that purpose, and she had served as nurse in a London hospital. (10)
• They were and are to a great extent noise-producing, used for the purpose of marking rhythms. (3)
• Do you not perceive that Mama was brought here to-day on purpose to shame us and cast us out? (10)
• No troublesome publicity and tedious postponement for the purpose of appeal mar its efficiency. (8)
• Elizabeth was determined; nor did Sir William at all shake her purpose by his attempt at persuasion. (4)
• It was resolved at Versailles that an expedition should be sent out to Cape Breton for that purpose. (19)
• She forbore to remind him in retort of his employment of metaphor when the figure served his purpose. (10)
• Her manner was incurably gentle; and she was not aware how much it concealed the sternness of her purpose. (4)
• She marvelled pityingly at the sort of madness which kept the streets so lively for no reasonable purpose. (22)
• The fact was manifest to the whole assembly, that they had indeed been drinking champagne to some purpose. (10)
• They may be there, though for the purpose of concealment, for no more exceptional purpose. (4)
• Examinations of her hand, as for some occult purpose, and unctuous pattings of the same, were not infrequent. (10)
• For this purpose she had first an interview with Mr. Warwick, and next she hurried to Lady Dunstane at Copsley. (10)
• So she passed the pitch of that fever, and bloomed anew in her beauty, and cherished it, for she had a purpose. (10)
• Toward midday the ladies put on their garden hats and went into the grounds together, for no particular purpose. (10)
• This, the most noticeable feature of yellow journalism, is indicative rather of its character than of its purpose. (16)
• And having rounded off his purpose with this lofty design, he went back to bed with his head lighter than a puff-ball. (8)
• Yes, she must have accomplished her purpose well; but she would show him and the others something still more wonderful. (5)
• I was to make my approaches by a series of ambushes before I unmasked my purpose, and perhaps I must not unmask it at all. (9)
• One may be determined to find a needle in a dust-heap; one does not with any stiffness of purpose go at a dust-heap eagerly. (10)
• When he heard her coolly asking him for his handkerchief to blind him, he had forgotten the purpose, and gave it mechanically. (10)
• Dahlia gathered her shawl close, and set an irresolute hand upon her bonnet strings, that moved as if it had forgotten its purpose. (22)
• For this purpose, it was imperative that I should go to him, and prepare myself for the interview by looking at the newspapers first. (10)
• There was hardly an art-centre in Europe from Copenhagen to Naples which he had not visited for the purpose of bringing out his works. (3)
• Little of the book read for a purpose stays with the reader, and this is one reason why reading for review is so vain and unprofitable. (9)
• The interior is in charge of a lecturer, who is usually either a magician or a Punch and Judy man, he thereby serving a double purpose. (21)
• In case of their non-arrival within a reasonable time, Troyes promised to assist them to such vessel as he could procure for the purpose. (19)
• In face they were commonplace, with nothing but the American poetry of vivid purpose to light them up, where they did not wholly lack fire. (9)
• There seemed no purpose in her standing there; it was perhaps an evening custom, some ceremony such as Moslems observe at the muezzin-call. (8)
• As they talked on, partly in German and partly in English, their purpose in visiting Ansbach appeared to the Marches more meditated than it was. (9)
• Such hearty hospitality as he offered us could not be refused, although it was the Delilah to our Samson strength of purpose, and we went ashore. (20)
• The Armisteds, apparently, could feel an insult: the face of the younger man flushed, then paled, but he subdued himself to the service of his purpose. (1)
• When the invitations were first issued, the purpose was to announce the engagement at this time, but Mollie would not yet give her consent to Barclugh. (18)
• Emma, an early riser that morning, for the purpose of a private consultation with Mr. Redworth, found her lying placidly wakeful, to judge by appearances. (10)
• The English more than any other nation have cultivated the dinner-table and the social meeting for the purpose of exchanging ideas regarding public affairs. (14)
• The Greydons began the social season for the purpose of preparing society for the early announcement of the engagement between Roderick Barclugh and their daughter. (18)

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