Sentence examples for in a purposeful from inspiring English sources
He was undeniably odd, but in a purposeful way.
His teammates say Rivera is particularly adept at dishing it out, often in a purposeful way.
"We want to try Bellevue," Mrs. Mohammed said in a purposeful voice.
She cultivated this animosity in a purposeful way, treating us with aggression".
OVER the intercom, Mr. Baez often talks to passengers in a purposeful staccato.
But I knew that, if we could make a machine that did this in a purposeful way, it could work.
During their march, protesters kept to the sidewalks and out of traffic in a purposeful attempt to prevent arrests.
You ache for an assurance that you're pointed in a purposeful direction, but suspect that you're going nowhere fast.
Admission to the auction itself is limited to the in-crowd, but I confess that more than once, having dressed for the occasion, I have walked in, made a purposeful beeline for an empty seat and simply sat down.
Yet we search with the same frenzy, willing to sacrifice ourselves in maintaining a "purposeful" relationship.
The situations are so similar that they are speaking mostly the same dialogue, often in tandem, a purposeful, trenchant and amusing parallel that suddenly shifts when Leon and Jane go through with the infidelity and Pete and Sonja do not.
