Sentence examples for innocent purposes from inspiring English sources

Mr. Issa's family said he was duped by a man who claimed to be renting an apartment for innocent purposes.

Others, like the gloomy tunnel leading away from the basement of a mansion on Riverside Drive in Manhattan, probably served less innocent purposes.

Have we become so inoculated with prejudice of race than an American government, professedly based on the principles of freedom, and charged with the protection of all citizens alike, can make distinctions between such citizens in the matter of their voluntary meeting for innocent purposes, simply because of their respective races?

The merits of the applications for a position should track the degree to which the applicant's hiring or selection for interaction would boost the fulfillment of the morally innocent purposes of the association as weighted by the association's bosses.

The relevant criteria of merit are to be set so that those who score highest are those whose selection would best further the morally innocent purposes of the enterprise.

Still, they are convinced that they could have had no other, innocent purpose.

Is it conceivable that Trump made these requests with innocent purpose?

In ordinary speech an interstate trip undertaken for an innocent vacation purpose constitutes the use of interstate commerce for that innocent purpose.

Though it was a sinister look, her strategy had an innocent purpose: she just wanted to try on lipstick.

In his own defense, Masterson claimed he had come from the West with the famed prize-fight promoter, Parson Davies, for the innocent purpose of shipping out to England.

One time in ten you may get the call against you, but the rest of the time, it's optimal strategy just to run on in and bang away and sit down on the goalie and then plead innocent purpose.