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How to use purposely in a sentence

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I purposely undersized my dovetail tenons slightly, to make the raising go well.
Such a letter is calculated to mislead, purposely or otherwise, those who are not familiar with Bradford City or its metropolitan area.
She took her hand and with no support, purposely fell into him, causing him to fall backwards.
Dine first and carry something easy in your purse to snack on as you stride purposely through the mall.
If an infielder purposely drops a soft fly ball, it can easily result in a double play or triple play.
Seemingly reading her mind, he leaned a little farther over the table, purposely reaching for one of her long braids and giving it a tweak.
Paraffin wax is purposely added to a mixture to create a surface bloom which acts as a barrier to sun-checking and oxidation.
Deciding that if asked, I could blame my night walk on sleepwalking, I shrugged and strode purposely towards the building.
I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears.
When it came to direct actions, the group discussions became purposely vague.
So you're saying someone purposely cut this tree down to fall on me, then ran away just a few minutes ago?
Even people who usually have three or four parties to go to were invited nowhere or purposely decided to stay in.
He had adopted a vacant stare and purposely looked straight ahead as the woman spoke.
It was six months before Andrew got a command, but then of troops purposely ill-equipped, poorly officered and virtually untrained.
Weak as my limbs were I managed to keep step with Nick, though I believe he purposely slowed his pace to accommodate me.
I can't even imagine why he would actually, purposely, try to jump in front of an oncoming car.
If the kerchief carried the lady's initials or name, it was purposely exhibited before the rival lover.
And after the situation had cooled into oblivion, I was left with an enlightening feeling of how being purposely outcasted feels like.
Hashtags are a discovery tool, while subtweets are a category of tweets that often purposely evade easy discovery.
The cult fiction collection presents four cheeseball attempts at low-budget horror that purposely elicit more laughs than chills.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Moroni had purposely told her that, evidently in anticipation that we might meet!
After he had passed the clivus Delphini, he ascended the Appian aqueduct on steps prepared purposely.
They had purposely chosen a form of words which would mean as little as possible.
I perceived that the manaia purposely played badly in order to let me win his head knife, on which he had carved my name.
At times we can produce strange, glasslike effects by purposely mixing non-harmonic tones.
But Rabinowitsch does not imitate Gogol and Ostrovski, at least not purposely.
Then they entered a cantina for breakfast, purposely choosing one that was little frequented by Americans.
She purposely made her voice coldly unsympathetic with a view toward summoning the weeper's pride to her aid.
I have purposely abstained from encumbering my narrative with legal details.
Even some of those purposely so embalmed, may have been overlooked by their executors, and still remain in the tomb.
He said Tom had purposely thrown the bottle of blacking at him.
Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable.
Might it not be a hoax purposely put in his way to delude him?
For Arcoll had purposely turned his police into a flying column.
Perhaps he had purposely misled them or fogged some essentials.
I tried my very utmost to show them that I could do without them, and yet I purposely made a noise with my boots, thumping with my heels.
Twice did I leave them purposely together in the course of the last morning, and each time did he most unaccountably follow me out of the room.
Sir James's brow had a little crease in it, a little depression of the eyebrow, which he seemed purposely to exaggerate as he answered.
Stall-off, to put off by means of a device, to misdirect purposely.
Linton must allow an interview soon, or he should fear he was purposely deceiving him with empty promises.
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