Example sentences for: purposely

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

  • The word "prediction" (and not "description") is purposely used here because most of the parameters are based on the default, previously determined set of PBPK data and there is a minimum of adjustable parameters.

  • 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).

  • In one case you did it purposely, and in the other the object did it to you.

  • 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."

  • I purposely hadn't reread the book before seeing the film, and furthermore resolved to forget Cronenberg's previous adaptation of a famously impossible work of literature, the contrived mess he fashioned from William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch . But as much as I enjoyed Crash the movie, I found that my keenest pleasure came from imagining the potential reactions of others.


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