Sentence examples for past purpose from inspiring English sources

On the south bank sits the Miami Circle, an archeological relic whose past purpose is undetermined.

Like the handyman surrounded by a garage full of tools accumulated for past purposes, the moral philosopher takes stock of the problem at hand, surveys her shelves for available conceptual resources, and then attempts to solve the problem by taking things apart, reordering, culling out, weighing, specifying, splicing in, and putting them all back together.

But in the past, the purpose of these stories was essentially prophetic.

The Constitution, Roberts said, "is not designed to punish for the past; its purpose is to ensure a better future".

The Amendment is not designed to punish for the past; its purpose is to ensure a better future".

The objects in both were sometimes simple things you might overlook like sand, sex wax, or toilet paper yet the media is pushed past its purpose and into directions where it becomes very attractive work.

As has been recently pointed out by others [6], [13], our results indicate that short-term substitution rate estimates can be misleading when they are extrapolated into the distant past for purposes of dating ancient evolutionary events.

A strong-minded person should not aim to cut out all mistakes, but rather, to move past them with purpose.

It was a Monday night, and most of the slots were going unused, their iconography flashing past to no purpose.

"Studying and writing about what happened in the past has little purpose if students cannot develop the skill of critical evaluation.

You open a drawer to the past for the purpose of moving some old relics around as though curating an exhibit, and then something with life still in it jumps up and bites you.