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Example sentences for "purposely"

Lexicographically close words:
purposed; purposeful; purposefully; purposefulness; purposeless; purposes; purposeth; purposing; purposive; purposiveness
  1. It was the common opinion of the Spanish authorities that the Friars purposely neglected instructing the Indians in Spanish, in order to perpetuate their hold upon them; but Zúñiga repels this charge as unjust and untrue.

  2. DEAR SIR: It is hard for me to conceive you would purposely do me an unkindness unless under the pressure of a sense of public duty, or because you do not believe me sincere.

  3. I left Generals Easton and Beckwith purposely to make arrangements in anticipation of my arrival, and have heard from neither, though I suppose them both to be at Morehead City.

  4. I have purposely never read his account of them, because I have preferred to keep them in mind as I knew them myself.

  5. The contention that Josephus purposely ignored the existence of Christ because he saw in him a menace to his faith is childish.

  6. She began to read a French poem, but in an exasperated tone and with a purposely wretched pronunciation which almost drove her teacher to despair.

  7. If he purposely exasperates Vaillant, he must take the consequences; he knows that the animal will not endure harsh treatment.

  8. Sometimes I almost think I missed my calling," said Philip, purposely talking about himself in order to make his wife come to the defense.

  9. Cowper here purposely makes Mrs. Gilpin use bad English; but this is no reason why a school-boy may not be taught to correct it.

  10. But in what a posture does the grammarian place himself, who condemns, as bad English, that phraseology which he constantly and purposely uses?

  11. Nearly all compounds that follow the form of their simple verbs, or derivatives that follow their primitives, are here purposely omitted.

  12. Just as Owen had done he condemned the map made by the halfbreed, Dubois, and declared that the fellow had undoubtedly purposely deceived him, with some object in view that could only be guessed.

  13. Stackpole must have been joking when he said the shack was close by, or else they had purposely made a circuit in their walk, for it was a full hour before they arrived at their destination.

  14. The mob rounded the highway, purposely selected because it curved, and disappeared from view.

  15. While he was staring at the circus boy, two popcorn boys connected with the show ran into him purposely and tripped him up.

  16. In a picture of this kind, a moral idea is sought to be portrayed by imaginary incidents purposely exaggerated.

  17. I purposely pass by his allegorical pictures as mere furniture for walls, not being subjects of sentiment; nor should I very much care if his "Peace and War" were in the sorry condition which has been wrongly given to it.

  18. Whether he did this purposely and with intent to defraud or whether he had accidentally mixed the cuttings secured from Clifton with some of a large number of cuttings which had come from abroad will never be known.

  19. Those suppositions are so far from being necessary, that they are not even true; they purposely depart, more or less widely, from the truth.

  20. And old Luther, taking the note which Frank had purposely sealed in an envelope, went ashore, and up toward the city.

  21. Frank purposely asked him to build some boxes out of several smooth boards purchased for the purpose; and the result was a botched job that any second-class carpenter would have blushed to own.

  22. Of them however a few were purposely slack in the fight according to the injunctions of Themistocles, 53 but the greater number were not so.

  23. Shakespeare in recasting The Troublesome Raigne of King John did not endeavour to dramatise either the character or reign of that King, but purposely followed the story of the earlier dramatist, having the same personal point in view.

  24. And he gave her the water and she drank, and, having finished drinking, she purposely threw down the calabash and broke it.

  25. And the slave gave it to her and she drank and purposely threw down the calabash and broke it.

  26. Purposely he struck due east, so that in coming up from the south and west Pierrot would not strike his sledge tracks.

  27. On the third morning Carvel purposely struck a course straight west.

  28. They make a dangerous pass at one another, the lady purposely runs between them, and is killed.

  29. All at once he rose from the mats where he had been reclining, and, still conversing, moved towards me, his eye purposely evading mine, and seated himself within less than a yard of me.

  30. The officers' regimentals, resplendent with gold lace and embroidery as if purposely calculated to dazzle the islanders, looked as if just unpacked from their Parisian cases.

  31. The actual outline is a line elaborately jagged, which the eye converts into a continuous curve by purposely neglecting to observe the small indentations.

  32. There are those at the door who come purposely to seek your life!

  33. Aye and well too,” answered the smith, purposely mistaking the other’s meaning.

  34. It would seem as if this lover, this wild enthusiastic boy, was purposely thrown in my way to be a weapon in my hands against Jacob Gray.

  35. If Charlotte was guilty at that moment of purposely leading the conversation up to this always for her most enthralling, most engrossing subject, she soon enough received her punishment.

  36. Briggs was nobly entertained by Lord Napier; and every summer after, during his lordship's life, this venerable man went to Scotland purposely to see him.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purposely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    consciously; deliberately; expressly; intentionally; knowingly; pointedly; purpose; purposely; voluntarily; wittingly