Sentence examples for normal purpose from inspiring English sources
He told his MI6 superiors he remembered that Burgess "possessed a sunlamp, which he used seldom, if ever, for its normal purpose".
bird being carried home by a Los Angeles housewife for the entirely normal purpose of cooking and eating, with pepper and salt to taste.
Below the flight deck, where North Carolina and Michigan State kicked off their respective seasons Friday, lay bombs and missiles, lest anyone forget the carrier's normal purpose.
While the use of white phosphorus may not violate the Chemical Weapons Convention if used for its normal purpose as camouflage, it may well violate the treaty if used against any person -- soldier or civilian.
Though the nanopore generation may have an adverse influence for the normal purpose of obtaining smooth nanopattern surface, it can be useful for specific applications by utilizing its large surface area and/or rough topology.
The book Playing with Videogames called it "extraordinarily skillful and humorous", citing it as both a suspension of the game's normal purpose by players with "parodic humor" and one of the defining moments in machinima.
"You're pretty enough for all normal purposes".
"Am I thin enough to get people... to get anybody... interested in me?" she asks, only to be told, "You're thin enough for all normal purposes".
Whether she is comically contending with an armful of imaginary milk bottles or telling her daughter she is beautiful enough "for all normal purposes", Curtin is vocally and physically on target, nailing the warmth and truth in her character.
In a statement released by the University, they explained that they wanted a peaceful end to the occupation so that the space could be returned to staff and students for its normal purposes.
All this for a book which has comparatively little scarcity value - about 750 copies were probably printed, of which at least 228 survive - and which has a use value, for most normal purposes, inferior to almost any other extant collected edition of Shakespeare.
