How to Use purposeful in a Sentence

purposeful

adjective

• The pace is purposeful, and not just because of its long time-to-kill.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
• There, the bit feels less like the goofy gimmick of the week and more like a purposeful tactic to deepen the gloom.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 5 Sep. 2023
• The gloves make the whole look feel purposeful and upscale, rather than tacked-on.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 26 Feb. 2024
• In one of his motions, a chip flies off in a very purposeful way.
  — Graham Ambrose, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
• The decision for the brand to not launch its own line was purposeful.
  — Marie Lodi, refinery29.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• The secrecy about the film has been purposeful, as many of the cast members have said.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2023
• The day of the month is a purposeful reference to the seven days of creation.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 4 Aug. 2020
• The room was blue itself, so the blue lighting was a [purposeful] choice.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 18 Oct. 2017
• The game plan against that was a lot of purposeful cutting, to lose people.
  — Tom Groeschen, Cincinnati.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• And how to do so in a way that feels purposeful and personal?
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 28 Jan. 2021
• Keep Austin weird by all means, but should the effort be this purposeful?
  — Nina Sovich, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2020
• For now, eat with the TV, make a plan for purposeful work, and take some time with each of your children and see what comes of it.
  — Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022
• That was all very purposeful, the misdirect of what the story is in the pilot.
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Aug. 2023
• Erik moves toward his father – not a run, but a slow, purposeful march – and looks him in the eyes.
  — Rob Davis, OregonLive.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• To me, the lack of praise from the veteran coach to the record-setting QB was clearly purposeful.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2020
• In many ways, this is the most present of all the hats because of how much purposeful attention is drawn to it.
  — Kinsey Jasnoch, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
• All the adoration, the glamour, the high life was, for Callas, a purposeful life of bread and roses.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
• With the wheels pushed out to the corners of the vehicle and crisp creases across the bodywork, the concept has a purposeful stance.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 16 Nov. 2022
• That journey can be purposeful and controlled—as with the ISS.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2024
• The photo is a Rorschach test, a purposeful mixed message.
  — Diane Winston, The Conversation, 31 May 2024
• Sharpe had been staying there for about 10 months, a purposeful choice to spread the Gospel and give people hope, those who knew him said.
  — Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 22 July 2024
• Or email me for a purposeful habits worksheet to help build tools like these into your life.
  — Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• Some of them were purposeful (and those projects tended to be the most successful).
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Dec. 2022
• Being able to do that is what makes the work more fulfilling and purposeful.
  — Virginia Tech, The Seattle Times, 19 Sep. 2017
• And that's pretty purposeful: One of the overt themes of Stranger Things season 3 is the cast becoming teens.
  — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 3 July 2019
• By contrast, the Folio's use of leather feels much more purposeful.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 1 Oct. 2018
• The essence of her late mother — whose name was Romay — is a presence that’s purposeful.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2022
• Google said the move was purposeful, in the hopes that a lower price would attract a wider audience.
  — Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2020
• While future films would be tighter and more purposeful, none would make room for a beautiful detour like Dignan and Anthony holed up at a motel, where Anthony nurses a wordless bond with a Spanish-speaking maid.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 June 2025
• The popularity of the art hotel concept indicates a shift in tourism, where a subset of hotels seeks to offer more purposeful, and not just aesthetic, experiences.
  — Ryan Craggs, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2025