How to Use by design in a Sentence

by design

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• The last wildlife encounter of the trip was, as if by design, the best.
  — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
• The FYCs have been in much larger rooms, and that was by design.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025
• Some of it was by design and some of it just kind of happened.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2023
• The schedule had Brandon Marsh in the group that faced Banks — and that was by design.
  — Matt Gelb, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
• There’s only one U.S. place on the list, but that’s by design.
  — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 8 May 2025
• In fact, HLAs are the most variable part of the human genome — which is by design.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 19 July 2023
• The restaurant’s ambience is a far-cry from the back of the food truck — by design.
  — Philip Freeman, Charlotte Observer, 7 May 2024
• On Sunday night, June 15, the prime-time race is by design.
  — Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025
• But the visuals are still hard to miss, and that’s by design.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2024
• This new spinoff is more of the same, and that is entirely by design.
  — Calum Marsh, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Respect must be paid to the writers, who have that all in mind by design.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 13 May 2023
• Also note that by design, this TV stand cannot sit on the floor and must be mounted on the wall.
  — Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2023
• Her version of Tinker Bell, by design, doesn’t talk much in the film.
  — Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2023
• And that was by design, said Rocha, who was evicted by a vote of 8-4 on July 31.
  — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 6 Aug. 2025
• But some of that is by design: This is a film with questions, not answers.
  — Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 28 June 2024
• The movies were provocative by design, and many critics condemned the movie.
  — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 30 May 2025
• That is a city that starts out by design to exclude poverty.
  — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• If there's no clear throughline between the premise in the first two entries, that was by design.
  — EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• The Inspire 3 is pretty bare-bones, but that’s by design.
  — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 10 June 2023
• Money is part of The Offseason, and that’s by design, said Purce.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2024
• For the most part, the game flow — either by design or sheer luck — worked out really well.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 May 2023
• And there is very little leakage in the Q4 TV market, which is by design.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 25 Apr. 2025
• If this looked like a college passing game at times, that's by design.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Sep. 2023
• From time to time, by design, their paths would cross, their whispers hot against the fabric of their uniforms.
  — Keren Blankfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• Political pundits say that might be by design.
  — Kirk Siegler, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026
• By the end of the night, the Gwanghwamun concert had done something that stadium shows, by design, cannot do.
  — Yook Jihun, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2026
• That sense of connection is by design, Walker said.
  — Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026
• When the Artemis 2 astronauts are ready to chow down, preparation for their meals will be simple by design.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
• The Dolphins aren’t tanking this season — at least not by design.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2026
• The siblings are cryptic and unknowable by design, and Jahan even more so for her silence.
  — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026