Examples of purposely in a Sentence
the real estate agent purposely withheld information that would have discouraged us from buying the property
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At that time landlords purposely overbuilt to avoid complying with an expensive new zoning law, which went into effect in 1963 and raised the standards for open space and light.
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Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025
The Crack Shack’s fried chicken is purposely not Southern.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
This happens due to the AI making use of statistical and probabilistic stipulations that are purposely devised to give the AI an appearance of being spontaneous and creative.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Promoted with little fanfare, the album was purposely absent from streaming services (save for a YouTube upload of the record), with a typically-awkward Geocities site serving as the main point of digital distribution for the two-hour long triple LP.
—Tyler Jenke, Billboard, 13 Aug. 2025
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Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025
The Crack Shack’s fried chicken is purposely not Southern.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
This happens due to the AI making use of statistical and probabilistic stipulations that are purposely devised to give the AI an appearance of being spontaneous and creative.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Promoted with little fanfare, the album was purposely absent from streaming services (save for a YouTube upload of the record), with a typically-awkward Geocities site serving as the main point of digital distribution for the two-hour long triple LP.
—Tyler Jenke, Billboard, 13 Aug. 2025
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“Purposely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purposely. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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purposely
adverb
pur·pose·ly
ˈpər-pəs-lē 
: with a clear or known purpose
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