Example sentences for: purposely

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

  • 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.

  • Worse, he's very big on language humor, on purposely mismatching tone and topic and veering abruptly between high-flown rhetoric and scatological bluntness.

  • 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).


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