Oh, I have no special business; my principal object was to make your acquaintance.
My principal object is to beg you to fix an hour for a most important conversation--that is my great hope, prince.
A principal object in his late political movements, the gentleman himself tells us, was to unite the entire South; and against whom, or against what, does he wish to unite the entire South?
And yet the honorable member comes forth and tells Mexico that the principal object of the bill is to frighten her!
SMITH agreed with gentlemen that the principal object of the House was to legislate; but it did not follow that they were to be confined merely to legislation.
Mr. Speaker, it is not my intention to detain you long; my principal object in rising is to conjure gentlemen to bring this debate to a close.
Mr. Villard asserts that Brown's greatest or principal object was to assault slavery, and so entitles an important chapter in the recent biography.
Consistent with the speculative instinct so distinctly characteristic of his life, his greatest or principal object was to get money, and to get it quickly.
We can almost lay it down as a law of this Republic, that no man who makes the Presidency the principal object of his public life will ever be President.
General Jackson's principal object--the object nearest his heart--appears to have been to wound and injure Henry Clay.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "principal object" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
