Sentence examples for purely to please from inspiring English sources
Yet as the city becomes safer, officers say they often feel pressured to do pointless arrests and ticket-writing, purely to please superiors.
Likewise, Lethal Weapon's new Murtaugh and Riggs exist purely to please an audience, bouncing off their captain, played by Kevin Rahm (Mad Men's Ted Chaough).
She once rode purely to please her father, a driven amateur cyclist called Max Pendleton, a man who wished he could have the life on a bike that Pendleton eventually found herself.
I did it purely and simply to please myself.
Other friends I spoke with claimed that Pauline's anti-Tutsi conversion was a purely careerist move meant only to please the higher-ups.
Everyone understands that it was purely for fun, something that a gorgeous, intelligent man might choose to do to please his public and celebrate his own magnificence, like a lion at the zoo choosing to roar at the crowd.
One sure-fire way to please your guy friend while steering well clear of awkward misunderstandings is to give him something that's purely functional — that is, something that's useful to him, but not necessarily very "warm" or intimate.
He pleases who he has to please.
"You have to please TV, you have to please fans.
To please everybody is to please nobody".
