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How To Use Purposelessly In A Sentence

  • Ellen entered a dress shop housed in a blue velvet capsule adorned by odd lights and displays while Henry strayed purposelessly into the bookstore.
  • Didn't we all, every one of us, waste hours -- days, even -- aimlessly, purposelessly clicking links from one site to the next, not knowing where we would go and then not knowing where our hours went? Jeff Jarvis: The Distraction Trope
  • let's not purposelessly dispense the aid
  • It just expends your energy wastefully—purposelessly. Recovering From Religious Abuse
  • The discomfort from having to stand so purposelessly on the street corner has them doubly animate in recounting tales and goss.
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  • The discomfort from having to stand so purposelessly on the street corner has them doubly animate in recounting tales and goss.
  • An efficient editor will not allow the volume of its journal go on swelling purposelessly.
  • By nurturing my bitterness, I thought I was punishing my abusers, but I was only punishing myself, spinning my wheels purposelessly for years. Recovering From Religious Abuse
  • Self-reporting in these matters is hard, but I am pretty sure “no end” can only mean “extensively” to me, while “to no end” * could* be used to express either “extensively” or “purposelessly” though I believe I favor the latter. Prescriptivists amaze me (to) no end « Motivated Grammar
  • I lay still like this for a long time, sometimes opening my eyes to gaze purposelessly upon the passing shadows on the ceiling, but most of the time, I just shut my eyes.
  • The ancient centre had been "purposelessly destroyed" by Flying Fortresses 18 months earlier. Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
  • Shot in North Korea, it features Western actors running purposelessly through a B-movie story about eugenics.

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