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Example sentences for "for the same purpose"

  • Defn: A key split at one end like a split pin, for the same purpose.

  • In later times the Bible was used for the same purpose by Christians.

  • Another tool, for the same purpose, is shown at fig.

  • Paddle wheels have also been employed for the same purpose.

  • The Hindoos employ a leguminous plant, which they call solu, for the same purpose.

  • When the trouble is caused by a worm or an insect, some insectivorous bird is called in for the same purpose.

  • It very much resembles the other formula for the same purpose, obtained from.

  • A part of the tongue, or some other portion of the animal, is usually cast upon the coals also for the same purpose.

  • Another composition, for the same purpose, is highly recommended.

  • For the same purpose, nitrate of copper is recommended.

  • The use of this mixture, for the same purpose, may be traced back, it is said, to a pagan origin.

  • Sometimes, for the same purpose, a piece of string only, over which a few prayers have been recited, is tied round the child's limb.

  • In the afternoon, two of the little Prince's Kaffir slave boys were sent to my house to be vaccinated; and on succeeding days several more were sent for the same purpose.

  • The Hindustani hospital assistants were not much wiser, for they sometimes used solutions of sulphate of zinc, a similar remedy, for the same purpose.

  • I bequeath two hundred thousand to Count Montholon, of which he will lodge one hundred thousand in the treasurer's chest, for the same purpose as above-mentioned.

  • Some persons employ a mixture of soap, fuller's earth, and turpentine, for the same purpose.

  • These are usually prepared from the legs of bacon pigs, but those of the sheep are also sometimes used for the same purpose.

  • Fresh-burnt charcoal has also been employed for the same purpose.

  • I bought some of these, for the same purpose as the Zemzem bottles which I took front hence.

  • I went out with several of the Malays to meet the women, and to ask them for some milk; the Malays had taken money with them to buy it; and I had filled my pockets with biscuit, for the same purpose.

  • In the province of Nedjed the Arabs grind the kernels for the same purpose; but this is not done in the Hedjaz.

  • Ammoniacal, alcoholic, and other stimulants are resorted to for the same purpose, being held to cause plenitude, not only by quantity, but by rarefying the animal fluids.

  • Alcohol and water or vinegar and water are sometimes employed for the same purpose.

  • The use of quinia in large doses has also been advocated for the same purpose, but experience, while it has shown that it is a valuable remedy, has demonstrated also that it does not possess {364} this power.

  • New pronouns would have to be used to mark the persons, or some other expedient be resorted to for the same purpose.

  • Wall, mai dulce; while French, Provencal, and Italian only allow of plus for the same purpose: Ital.

  • The Parsee wife, who burns herself to ashes upon the funeral pyre of her dead husband, does it for the same purpose: To get right with her God.

  • The devout Mohammedan who bows himself to the earth five times a day, and says his prayers with his face towards Mecca, does it for the same purpose: To get right with Allah.

  • The savage who repeats his incantations to his fetish that he has probably made with his own hands, does it for the same purpose: To get right with God as he conceives him.

  • The devotee who throws his body before the wheels of the Juggernaut to have it crushed as an act of devotion, does it for the same purpose: To get right with his God.

  • These men were to be met here in Chicago by parties from nearly all the middle, western and border States, who came armed like themselves and for the same purpose.

  • This man Cantrill had been one of those who had come to Chicago during the Convention, for the same purpose, and averred that then and at the election, the Copperheads had offered and held out to them every inducement to get them here.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for the same purpose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for fear; for having; for his; for his mercy endureth for ever; for our; for some unknown reason; for the common benefit; for they were not; for want; foraging expedition; forbidden fruit; foreign assistance; foreign influences; foreign ministers; foreign relations; forest fire; forgive thee; forked tongue; former page; former state; formic acid; fortnight later; forty minutes; grandmother says; human shape; second period