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Example sentences for "purposefully"

Lexicographically close words:
purports; purpos; purpose; purposed; purposeful; purposefulness; purposeless; purposely; purposes; purposeth
  1. The red letters on the buff ground passed into Barbara’s eyes—as indeed they were purposefully intended—and impressed themselves on her memory.

  2. The morning sun, streaming cheerfully through the clear windows, lay across his paper-strewn desk, bringing into prominence its handsome fittings and the large sinewy hand which reached purposefully for a pen.

  3. A figure got down from the driver's seat and walked purposefully in the gate.

  4. It was an ambulance, and it came purposefully out of a side avenue and swung toward a particular place as if it knew exactly what it was about.

  5. Skinning his hat onto a shelf, he moved purposefully toward the row of basins, ripping off his old shirt as he went.

  6. He was being purposefully brutal now, for a good reason.

  7. Reaching the retail district, he strolled purposefully up one street and down another, passing many brilliantly lighted shops until he found one exactly to his liking.

  8. If you would only say you are sorry," she went on sadly, groping only half-purposefully for the bell-push which would summon the custodian.

  9. The engineer purposefully prolonged the talk with Fitzpatrick until the scattered sight-seers had gathered for a descent, under Jerry Blacklock's lead, to the great ravine below the dam where the river thundered out of the cut-off tunnel.

  10. First making sure that no watchman had been left to guard the point of hazard, the man groped purposefully under the fallen locomotive and drew forth a stout steel bar which had evidently been hidden for this later finding.

  11. Ballard recalled, with a singular and quite unaccountable pricking of impatience, that once before, when the conditions were curiously similar, she had purposefully turned the conversation upon Bromley.

  12. They scattered purposefully through the various exits of the huge building.

  13. During the same days at Winchester Keats also wrote intimately and purposefully to Reynolds, Brown, and Dilke.

  14. The Customs man was willing, but Armstrong and I, trudging purposefully off up the road, refused to return.

  15. At this juncture I threw down my fork and strode purposefully out of the right side of the picture.

  16. After dinner they began to dance, and the infanta purposefully caused the dancing to continue until late at night.

  17. The guard who was running after him fell down purposefully so that the Albanian had time to go inside the town.

  18. Druggett, in manifest dudgeon, turned sharply and marched out of the house, while Wilbrow strode purposefully back to the stage by way of the passage behind the boxes, Matthias following with an air of profound disgust and despondency.

  19. Purposefully he retarded his footsteps, approaching the house with stealth, eager to escape observation and gain his room, unhindered.

  20. They moved directly to the spot where they had last seen the tyrannosaurus, found the trampled underbrush and massive tracks, and moved purposefully into the dank, suffocating green world.

  21. As he strode purposefully toward the house, eyes alert for any sign of life, he thought for a moment everyone might be taking a midday nap.

  22. When the train was cleared and the wires idle, she went suddenly to the table, laid her fingers purposefully upon the key, and called up her chief.

  23. Grant walked purposefully down to the front of the store, where Pete was fumbling behind the rampart of crude pigeonholes which was the post-office.

  24. He rose purposefully from his desk and the two hurried to one of the warehouses.

  25. Hanlon got up leisurely, but walked purposefully over to confront the Greenie.

  26. He was thinking as purposefully as ever he had in his life.

  27. Again he broke the grip of her teeth by the application of ring finger and thumb to her cheeks, and then he reached purposefully for her throat and began to strangle her in dead earnest.

  28. Your Honor is pleased to flatter," she returned, drooping her eyes at him with a purposefully artificial effect.

  29. But the young reader was not purposefully shopping in this vast market-place of print.

  30. I finished my meal full of determination and strode back purposefully toward the car.

  31. Now the desert had an ally, the grassy fingers avoided the downtown district, feeling purposefully and dangerously toward the aqueducts.

  32. As the indentures gingerly started down the hill in the direction Atiba and Derin had gone, Briggs turned and, still coughing, headed purposefully up the pathway toward the remains of the mill room.

  33. But as he ambled along a thought came to him, and he quickened his pace and walked more purposefully toward the downtown section and a certain building he had previously spotted.

  34. Later he went, purposefully late, into the drinking place.

  35. He sent his mind purposefully out and around.

  36. Other books which I possess have portions similarly purposefully printed upside down to afford revelations of Bacon's authorship to those readers who are capable of understanding symbols.

  37. He had been moving purposefully around the clearing, keeping his nose close to the ground, when suddenly he stopped and began to scratch the earth.

  38. Hank Dawson was striding purposefully toward the mass of dogs.

  39. He felt Janice turn and run purposefully through the darkness toward the second 'copter.

  40. The faceless people moved purposefully now, and beyond them loomed the towering bulk of scaffolding erected about the pit where the great bronze cylinder of a ship lay.

  41. Buck had dispatched scouts to meet them, and knowing his people's skill at the business, Travis was certain the Tatars would never suspect their flanking unless the Apaches purposefully revealed themselves.

  42. A sphere resembling the warden-globes, it was a hundred times their size, and its orbit was purposefully controlled by instruments under the eye and hand of a human pilot.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purposefully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    consciously; decidedly; deliberately; earnestly; expressly; firmly; intentionally; knowingly; persistently; pointedly; purposely; resolutely; seriously; staunchly; steadily; vigorously; voluntarily; wittingly