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Example sentences for "intention"

Lexicographically close words:
intensity; intensive; intensively; intent; intente; intentional; intentionally; intentione; intentioned; intentions
  1. It is difficult to bid a tactful farewell to a man who has stated his intention of going in the same direction as yourself.

  2. He never had any intention of starting a motion-picture company.

  3. Nelly was round-eyed and mystified, and Mr Brown had manifestly no intention whatever of withdrawing tactfully.

  4. One may see, too, a certain parabolic aspect hinted at, as if the poet would have us catch a half-revealed intention to present calamity of any kind under this image of captivity.

  5. There is possibly an intention to go beyond those recognised as sacred, in order to emphasise the universality of praise.

  6. We have no intention of discussing the literary and political merits of the various "Weeklies.

  7. But their kind intention was without effect.

  8. Never had I spoken of such an intention to any person, and I knew that, even in my worst attacks of fever and ague, I had never been delirious in the slightest degree.

  9. As soon as they were alone, he boldly avowed his intention of capturing the ship, and murdering all the other white men if Kaibuka and his people would assist him.

  10. He hurried through that meal and stepped out into the street, with the intention of hastening to Dr.

  11. But, above all, supposing he had done this with the intention of keeping it secret from Bennington, what possible benefit or advantage could the old man derive from such an action?

  12. Assuming that the crowd's intention was to view the unaccustomed locomotive, it was strange it did not occur to them that the opposite side of the track or the adjacent prairie would afford more elbow room.

  13. They had admitted that their intention had been to steal the hundred thousand dollars themselves.

  14. Emmanuel would not understand, and he, Dave Henderson, had no intention of enlightening the other why a car was no longer necessary.

  15. Nothing easier than to slip out of her way could they get the foresail to draw; but the time was short, the deadly intention manifest, the coming destruction swift.

  16. Yet he had strolled out with no particular intention of going there.

  17. Now it is my aim and intention to discover who they are--and to carry war into the enemy's quarter.

  18. I haven't the faintest intention of being engaged to Cossie.

  19. It is his fixed intention to go to Ireland; he has some money, and hopes to settle down on his own little farm.

  20. He looked awfully white and stern, and said he only likes you as a cousin, and that he had no intention of anything--and I believe him.

  21. And so he did that very human thing--declared his intention of retiring permanently from public life.

  22. Lexington was laid out in the year Seventeen Hundred Seventy-four, and the intention was to name it in honor of Colonel Patterson, the founder, or of Daniel Boone.

  23. Against the advice of his leading counselors, Johnson persisted in his intention to keep Stanton out of the Cabinet.

  24. This authority was invoked to carry the disfranchisement of the whites far beyond the intention of the law in an attempt to destroy the leadership of the whites and to register enough Negroes to outvote them at the polls.

  25. Elinor's real intention in sending her husband to fill this breach was not a complete success, for the boy's eyes never once rested upon his interlocutor; they still remained fixed wherever Arethusa was.

  26. And one of those Rules was that no really Nice girl would ever permit herself to be kissed by a man unless she had every intention of marrying him immediately or was already married to him.

  27. If Arethusa was still angry with him, he had no intention of bothering her again; he only wanted to be allowed to listen.

  28. Timothy adhered to his announced intention of leaving on the following morning, much to Arethusa's fury.

  29. Incidental reference has been made to the efficiency of rotating field motors, a matter of much importance, though it is not the intention to dwell upon it here.

  30. He launched some quadriremes, and embarked with the intention of succouring not only Rectina but others who lived on that populous and picturesque coast.

  31. In one or two passages Statius [33] promises Domitian an epic celebrating his deeds, but probably he never had any serious intention of fulfilling his word.

  32. When Lucceius announced his intention of writing a history which should include the Catilinarian conspiracy, Cicero did not scruple to beg him to enlarge a little on the truth.

  33. He retired for some months to his Antian villa, and announced his intention of publishing a collection of anecdotes of contemporary statesmen, in the style of Theopompus, which would be, if we possessed it, an extremely valuable work.

  34. And he had inspected all the marriageable girls in the country with a serious intention which disgusted some and amused others, and filled a few with breathless hope.

  35. It was with fear and trembling that she had ventured to unfold this hesitating intention to the old lady.

  36. Rage with difficulty smothered; a determined intention to follow his own way; an uneasy shame turning to bitterness and passion.

  37. The result was, that nearly every one became satisfied with his good intention in going to the theatre, and originating dramatic entertainments in the village.

  38. I have no more intention of signing away my liberty," said Nat, "than you have.

  39. But Renwick had no desire or intention to leave Vienna.

  40. And given that to be his purpose, what was his intention with regard to the Countess Strahni?

  41. I have no intention of leaving Sarajevo unless someone should happen to pay my railroad fare," replied Renwick wearily.

  42. My opponents during the campaign had laid much stress upon my supposed personal ambition and intention to use the office of President to perpetuate myself in power.

  43. He said he had no intention of coming after me; and as he was very much crippled with rheumatism, I did not believe he would do so.

  44. Not only did I never entertain after the convention, but I never during the convention or at any other time, entertained the intention alleged in the quotation in question.

  45. Whether Mr. Wilson's intention was satirical or not is of no concern; but I call his attention to the fact that he has conspicuously and strikingly failed "to set the facts down accurately.

  46. My intention to call such a conference was publicly announced at a great meeting at Memphis, Tenn.

  47. I began to gather data on the subject, with the intention of bringing about corrective legislation, for at that time I expected to continue in office as Governor.

  48. The natural result of this new attitude was the assertion in every form by the representatives of special interests that the Forest Service was exceeding its legal powers and thwarting the intention of Congress.

  49. In short, I believe the similitude might be traced in many other instances; but it was my intention only to hint at it, and not to abuse the patience of my readers.

  50. Indeed, it did not appear to me that these people had any intention to make war upon their brethren.

  51. It was my intention to have gone through the channel, but the approach of night made me lay it aside, and steer without the island.

  52. I knew fair means would never make them deliver them up; and I had no intention to try others.

  53. After leaving Norfolk Isle, I steered for New Zealand, my intention being to touch at Queen Charlotte's Sound, to refresh my crew, and put the ship in a condition to encounter the southern latitudes.

  54. My intention was to have got into this latitude four or five degrees of longitude to the west of the meridian we were in, and then to have carried on my researches to the east.

  55. For it was not my intention to hurt a hair of his head, or to detain him a moment longer than he desired.

  56. I know not if I can explain what seems to have perplexed you, but if I cannot explain I have no intention to lie.

  57. And now I come back to England with the intention of marrying, late in life though it be, and with such hopes of happiness as any matter-of-fact man may form.

  58. He did attempt for the first few days to visit me as before, but when my intention to shun him became thus manifest, desisted naturally enough, as any other man so pointedly repelled would have done.

  59. Dazzled by the brilliancy of this idea, the mayor announced his intention to give a ball that should include the surrounding neighbourhood, and be worthy, in all expensive respects, of the dignity of himself and the occasion.

  60. If it had been the chief intention of the original poet to glorify the Danish nation, he would not have ignored it as he has done in the latter part of the poem.

  61. On the other hand if his intention was to glorify the Götar he would hardly have begun with an account of the early kings of the Danes.

  62. Probably the intention is to do Beowulf a quite exceptional honour.

  63. Menelaos' intention seems to have been to put Odysseus in the position of a dependent prince.

  64. At the present time however it seems to be generally held[160] that they are scholastic products of a later age, based upon chronicles and composed with the intention of glorifying the ancestry of some distinguished Welsh families.

  65. The scene represents a battle, and it may have been the artist's intention to depict what was not a normal custom but the last resource of fugitives whose chariots had broken down.

  66. It is my intention to figure and describe this ancient object in the account of the explorations of 1896.

  67. Decoration on the bottom of plate CXLVI, f] There are many pictures of birds and feathers where the design has become so conventionalized that it is very difficult to recognize the intention of the decorator.

  68. He recognised the intention of those words.

  69. Hugo Drake, of Puerto Principe, had just come into La Gloria with Lieutenant Cienfuente, the owner of the Viaro tract, with the intention of dispossessing the colonists of their land.

  70. When the day arrived, he announced his intention of walking to the port, and set out to do so, but was quickly picked up and taken down in a wagon.

  71. Mr. Neuber and some of the others expressed the intention of returning to La Gloria later in the year.

  72. When his leave of absence expired he returned to his far away home in Canada, but before sailing he expressed himself as being greatly pleased with La Gloria, and made known his intention to make it his residence at some future time.

  73. Every Galveston business man talked confidently of the future of the city, though many of the clerks announced their intention of going away as soon as they can accumulate money enough.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intention" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aim; ambition; animus; appetite; approach; arrangement; aspiration; attack; basis; blueprint; calculation; calling; cause; choice; command; conception; consideration; contrivance; counsel; decision; desideratum; design; desire; destiny; determination; device; discretion; disposition; drift; effect; enterprise; expectation; fancy; foresight; forethought; function; game; goal; ground; idea; ideal; import; inclination; inspiration; intent; intention; layout; liking; lineup; lodestar; lust; mainspring; matter; meaning; method; methodology; mind; motive; object; objective; organization; passion; picture; plan; planning; pleasure; point; prearrangement; principle; procedure; program; project; proposal; prospect; prospectus; purpose; rationalization; reason; resolution; resolve; sake; schedule; schema; scheme; score; setup; source; spirit; spring; strategy; striving; study; system; tactics; thought; view; vocation; volition; way; will