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Example sentences for "intentionally"

Lexicographically close words:
intensively; intent; intente; intention; intentional; intentione; intentioned; intentions; intently; intentness
  1. It was doubtless intentionally omitted by Ramusio, though it would be difficult to say why.

  2. Children who are beginning to repeat intentionally what is said, often put another sound in place of the well-known correct (no doubt intended) one; this on account of deficient control of the tongue or other peripheral organs of speech.

  3. Gallus, too, seemed to me to be intentionally prolonging the conversation.

  4. Proculejus did not look like a babbler, but I felt a suspicion that he was intentionally trying to hold the attention of the Queen.

  5. The world has a right to know all about him, and those who keep back the facts of his life are cheating him of the fame which he deserves, they are willfully and intentionally doing him an injury.

  6. That he could thoughtlessly or intentionally have brought upon them such cruel anxiety was unthinkable.

  7. Gruppe maintains exactly the contrary; telling us that Plato's language was intentionally obscure and equivocal--from fear of putting himself in open conflict with the pious and orthodox sentiment prevalent around him.

  8. The result has been a series of remarkable pictures.

  9. Macrianus, however, aspired to the empire, and intentionally brought Valerian into difficulties, in the hope of disgracing or removing him.

  10. We had intentionally held George Edwards and his outfit for this purpose, and cutting the numbers into two herds, the Medicine River lads led off for winter quarters.

  11. We intentionally made these deliveries late--during the last week in March and the first one in April--in order that Major Hunter might approve of the three herds of cows for Indian delivery.

  12. But I never intentionally neglected any of my studies.

  13. It is a mere chance," he thought at last; "she has not intentionally drawn me into a snare.

  14. The letters to Atticus are usually colloquial, full of unexplained allusions, sometimes made intentionally obscure and pieced out with a Greek phrase, for fear of the carrier's treachery!

  15. The photograph of a nude woman is not obscene; but if the face is hidden, and thus the personal moment intentionally eliminated in favour of the generic element, it approaches the obscene.

  16. In the former he intentionally raised the value of love and its position in the universe to a problem, embodying his knowledge of the world, and more especially of the modern world, in supernatural, mythical figures.

  17. He frequently alludes to himself as "the servant of the Eternal Wisdom"; the meaning of this expression is apparently intentionally obscured, but it has a savour of the feminine.

  18. She intentionally sat at some distance from the windows, near the bedroom door.

  19. The majority of the mob moved at a running pace in a direction opposite to the one in which Laskowicz and the girl were going, and undoubtedly they intentionally moved that way in order to deceive the pursuers.

  20. Intentionally he plucked off the wings of his own thoughts: intentionally he imposed fetters upon his vagaries and unchained his concupiscence.

  21. It is made of green quartz and has the edge intentionally blunted.

  22. A few of these may have served as knives or daggers, as they are intentionally rounded by grinding at the more tapered end, which at first sight appears to have been intended for the point and not for the handle.

  23. In some of these ovate specimens a flat place has been intentionally left on one of the sides towards the broad end, apparently to facilitate its being held in the hand and used as a knife.

  24. It is 4 1∕2 inches long, and the edge has been intentionally blunted by grinding, so that it was possibly a battle-axe.

  25. Certainly, amateur performances rarely contain anything intentionally so humorous as the idea of suggesting to "G.

  26. Another time some advice, which I afterwards discovered to have been intentionally misleading, sent me off on a wild goose chase, wasted half a day and brought me a reprimand from the chief.

  27. It seemed that they were intentionally slow.

  28. From subsequent investigation it was found that this girl was the only one of the witnesses who had been early and intentionally given an explanation about sex by her mother.

  29. Footnote 253: I should here observe that I am intentionally refraining from discussing our problem from the standpoint of the psychology of types.

  30. The experimenter intentionally gives the table a slight push, or, better, a series of rhythmic but very slight taps.

  31. The parallelism often accidentally or intentionally passes into divergence.

  32. Let any neglected correspondent be assured that it was not intentionally that he or she was slighted.

  33. Intentionally Teresa had lingered over the work, dreading to begin the more elaborate decorations which would require aid.

  34. As a concession to Spanish pride, the commerce clause in the Truce of 1609 was made intentionally unintelligible--but the Dutch interpreted it to suit themselves.

  35. Whether it was done intentionally or not, Frieda put on a frock in which she looked particularly young.

  36. Then, fearing to appear intentionally rude, Jack approached their visitor alone.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intentionally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.