How to Use on purpose in a Sentence

on purpose

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• Because the third space is back, and it is being rebuilt on purpose.
  — Olivia Shalhoup, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
• Belief is not the residue of winning; it is built, on purpose, long before kick-off.
  — André Martin, Fortune, 16 July 2026
• Dark circles get enhanced rather than left alone, and liner is smudged on purpose to look slept-in.
  — Ashley Lynch, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026
• Officials believe that snake had been kept as a pet and was released on purpose.
  — Katie Houlis, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026
• Someone said the sentence no one wanted to say, and the cut was made on purpose, while there was still room to shape it.
  — Mohamed Al Hashemi, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
• Each one can be made on purpose instead, and each decides where your strongest engineers end up.
  — Dimitar Dimitrov, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
• Test ​The discipline that used to be enforced by cost now has to be enforced on purpose.
  — Andrew Siemer, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
• Unlike her husband, Barroso is far from a household name—and that’s very much on purpose.
  — Emma Banks, InStyle, 17 July 2026
• China built this on purpose None of this happened by accident.
  — Mark Minevich, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
• Kumi's answer to that problem is to stay small on purpose and to gate on behavior rather than title.
  — Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
• Land managers are already using fire-scar data to decide when to ignite blazes on purpose.
  — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
• Jane hoped to be more overt, creating a simple manual for people who came to the topic on purpose.
  — Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
• Or, rather, the prototype itself was dropped — on purpose — but the outcome of its fall was not what engineers had hoped for.
  — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2026
• Officials believe the snake was someone's pet and was likely released on purpose.
  — Nick Caloway, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
• The filmmaking team went internal on purpose, and built a movie about a young man nobody remembers.
  — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
• That was clearly on purpose and Democratic candidates got the memo.
  — Evan Thies, New York Daily News, 5 Nov. 2026
• The girls keep running into Lux (and to his nice new girlfriend) around town, and soon begin spending time with him on purpose.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026
• The companies that will define the next decade are the ones that decide to do the same for the next generation, on purpose and at scale.
  — Brad Strawbridge, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
• Congress made holding a stablecoin an interest-free loan to the issuer, on purpose.
  — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
• In this case, OpenAI turned those limits off on purpose to see what the model could do without them.
  — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 22 July 2026
• The rooms that work, these designers agree, are the ones where every decision is made on purpose, and confidently.
  — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 7 July 2026
• The push to make Elci choose between running or radio most assuredly is being done on purpose.
  — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2026
• Whether on purpose or happy accident, the scent often draws consumers directly to the hot case of ready-to-eat chickens.
  — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 15 May 2026
• In their early days at the scenic property, the duo said they would get lost in the sprawling space — both accidentally and on purpose.
  — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 10 July 2026
• In some situations, the players in question have been accused of avoiding rebounds or missing shots on purpose.
  — Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
• The prize is that good management stops being a coin flip and becomes the standard every team gets, on purpose, instead of the lucky few who landed a great boss.
  — Simon De Baene, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
• Brady toyed with Gronkowski at first, hitting a Cane’s logo just above the target on purpose, and did so again with a different one.
  — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026
• Some team should try doing minimalist football on purpose for one Saturday.
  — Jason Kirk, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
• The music is low, and RooftopKC is reservation-only on purpose to keep the new spot relaxed.
  — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026
• Design that path on purpose, and your environment will guide you toward better choices without burning willpower.
  — Ben Meer, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026