Sentence examples for intents from inspiring English sources

The word "intents" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "intents" to describe the purpose or goal behind something one might do. For example, "He had good intents when he offered to help his friend."

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intents

noun

Plural of intent

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After battling through the smorgasbord of showings, landlords and contract negotiations, the property is, to all intents and purposes, yours.

Blas Perez scored an obvious goal that was clearly over the line but we were robbed, and even though we got the equalizer deep into injury time it was a game that left a bad taste, even if to all intents and purposes it was a game we didn't expect much from beforehand, with George John out and Ferreira only available to come off the bench.

But then, he didn't need to: by the end of the show, the British designer had, to all intents and purposes, made his comeback.

The European Tour co-sanctions the competitions and has staff on site at all three but to all intents and purposes they give the impression of added stops on the PGA Tour.

It seemed remarkable, in the era of CCTV footage, that somebody could walk through an English town centre and then, to all intents and purposes, disappear off the face of the earth.

The former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell, the MP for North East Fife, who made a similar recommendation for a new Scottish conference in 2012, said it would be "a remarkable opportunity for Scotland as a whole – not just the political parties – to create a relationship with the rest of the UK which to all intents and purposes would be federal".

To all intents and purpose, prisoners disappear into a black hole during transportation, re-emerging only when they arrive at their destination colony.

City's manager Gary Rowett said: "It looked to all intents and purposes that the game was over but I just felt there were little moments in the last 15 minutes when you could see there might be something still in it for us.

For all intents and purposes, Gingrich has made it a two-man race.

A black male rapper with, to all intents and purposes, a handbag and glasses – whatever next?

In Swift's time, European explorers had only skirted around the coastal edges of Africa and its interior remained, to all intents and purposes, a mystery.

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