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How to use on purpose in a sentence

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That one can mishear on purpose is somewhat surprising, because it would not pass the test.
The wife thought I'd done it on purpose, so I was in the doghouse for a while.
It was only later that I realised that the boy had probably done it on purpose.
Technically speaking, the Bhopal tragedy was an accident, in that it was not done on purpose.
But, the reason why it's a muddly subject is because they're being thick and pointless on purpose!
Somehow, possibly accidentally on purpose, this festival seems to have managed to almost totally exclude the student body.
Accordingly, she dropped her fork accidentally on purpose and gasped with false surprise.
Trying to be annoying on purpose doesn't strike me as the pinnacle of political broadcasting.
Incorrect reports are mainly the results of mistakes or misjudgments, and are seldom made on purpose.
Many within the industry and in the rail driving unions stress that no train driver runs a red light on purpose.
You had to quickly say sorry or it was likely to explode into some sort of stupidness as if you did it on purpose.
Sometimes I wonder whether they often use clumsy statements that can hurt us directly on purpose or out of sheer ignorance.
The four students were forced to say they will not pirate copyrighted music on purpose and will shut down their search services.
He was leaving out the scores of those he believed were guessing their Zener cards wrong on purpose.
She's kept something from her, on purpose, because she was afraid it would change what she thinks of her.
The other issue Jon raises is knowing whether people were shot by accident or on purpose.
Firefighters believe youths who were waiting for them on the estate had started the blazes on purpose.
Does anybody realise that buses actually drive through the traffic jams or are they coming late on purpose just to annoy you?
The strange flatness of the balloon and pretty poor background were done on purpose.
He was pushing buttons on purpose, to figure out what would make him tick and what he would let roll off his back.
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Examples from Classical Literature
You've come all the way from London on purpose to make that audit, have you?
She had borrowed a half-day from the future on purpose, though she did not want to go at all.
And several pieces of devotion have been put in, bought on purpose at second-hand.
Ask her to let you see that red velvet dress that she got made on purpose, and the panier.
When he has finished the sheet, or phonogram, as I call it, it is ready for putting into a little box made on purpose for mails.
Instead of sewing-silk, standards had best be worked with chenille, such as comes on purpose for embroidering.
Was he misunderstanding her on purpose, or giving a lesson on slipslop at such a provoking moment?
Well, I shall see you again, for I shall come on purpose to make my adieux.
Thomas Reynolds, of Killeen Castle, entered their body on purpose to betray them.
I bought a stick and a new pair of boots at Brussels on purpose for Ostend.
One thing we was sartin sure of, and that was that they'd left lobelia aboard on purpose.
Yet how few go to the Isthmus on purpose to see these things, and, mirabile dictu, how few Americans!
He left the Missouri Compromise unrepealed, and in his report accompanying the bill he told the world he did it on purpose.
The message for cordwainer went out of his head, though he went that way on purpose.
Janey Wilcox, she will have it that that roselle Upman set it on purpose.
The ledge was covered with fine sand, as if on purpose for a duel.
Would slyly break his hoe-handle, too, on purpose to get rid of hoeing.
People had always said he lived on mouldy bread, on purpose to check his appetite.
I put my question quickly and somewhat sternly, on purpose to disconcert him.
We can hardly be expected to foozle on purpose, just to let Archie show off before his girl.
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