Example sentences for: purposely

How can you use “purposely” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's as if someone purposely disturbedthis: a brook runs loud in spring, you live herewith a boy who builds paper castles.

  • Congress purposely underfunds the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

  • As I'm sure y'all know, the Bush campaign purposely combatted the possibility of competing with mock spoof sites like gwbush.com by BUYING domain names (over 60 sites, from what I got from the Newsweek article).

  • Lately I've been purposely overtipping, just to be safe.

  • President Bush purposely mispronounced "Saddam Hussein" to annoy the Iraqi leader, while Iraqi newsreaders retaliated by mispronouncing Bush so that, in Arabic, it meant "nothing."


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