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Example sentences for "purposed"

Lexicographically close words:
purportedly; purporting; purports; purpos; purpose; purposeful; purposefully; purposefulness; purposeless; purposely
  1. Telemachus had gone seeking news of his father, and how the suitors purposed to slay him as he returned.

  2. God is love, and His happiness consists in the exercise and expression of it, according to His own eternal purpose, which He purposed in Christ Jesus before the world began.

  3. They are jealous of such control, and are therefore best approached by conduct and feeling, and the authority of simple worth, which seem to make no purposed onset.

  4. The cause was an accident, and yet a purposed act.

  5. For this, when completed, he expected a large sum, with which he purposed at once proceeding to Gibraltar.

  6. Though I have finished what I had purposed to say, yet I will add one thing more.

  7. He was waiting for the darkness, for he knew that he could never do what he purposed in cold daylight.

  8. I had purposed to slay you, for you have defied my majesty.

  9. The report went abroad about this time, not without some foundation, that Miss Bond purposed patronizing me.

  10. The English gentleman who, after the death of Canova, asked a surviving brother of the sculptor whether he purposed carrying on Canova's business, found that he had achieved in the query an unintentional joke.

  11. I had purposed to visit Hyeres, about six miles distant, but was deterred by what was told me of the badness of the road: it is a winter colony planted by the English, a sort of succursal to Nice.

  12. And when I was near that spot one day where I purposed to be by myself, a certain old man of dignified appearance, exhibiting meek and venerable manners, followed me at a little distance.

  13. Keble had purposed in his own mind to keep them beside him, correcting and improving them, as long as he lived, and to leave them to be published only "when he was fairly out of the way.

  14. Then Shahriyar made an end of his sitting in all weal, whereupon the folk dispersed to their dwelling-places and the news was bruited abroad that the King purposed to marry the Wazir's daughter, Shahrazad.

  15. They purposed remaining in London only three days, prior to departing for some weeks to a distant part of the coast.

  16. You don't mean that he lent you the money after you had told him what you purposed doing with it?

  17. At length, on the 11th of March, the Afghans approached so near the walls, that it was suspected that they purposed undermining them.

  18. This and other circumstances greatly excited his anger; at the same time, he suspected that the English were disposed to assist the Egyptians, who he thought purposed invading his country.

  19. In thirty years the men of science hoped and purposed its perfection.

  20. Before him on the saddle he carried a pick and shovel and in reply to her query as to what he purposed doing, he replied that he had to clean out a spring where the cattle were accustomed to drink.

  21. On a day a year ago, when the story was still so vague I could scarcely find words in which to sketch for you an outline of the novel I purposed writing, you said: "It will be a good story.

  22. The immediate cause of his last sickness was too close application to the composition of a poem, which he purposed to present to the queen, on the day of her accession.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purposed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advised; calculated; conscious; considered; deliberate; designed; intended; intentional; knowing; meant; planned; projected; proposed; purposeful; studied; voluntary; willful