Sentence examples for purpose throw from inspiring English sources

While they do not serve much practical purpose, throw pillows can make a bed appear even more comfortable.

The tune was simple and a bit meandering, but its flatness served a purpose, throwing the rest of the set into relief.

The country's Roman Catholic archbishop, the Rev. Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, warned in an appeal to human rights advocates that actions against Catholic priests and parishes in Russia had reached such a peak that they "to all intents and purposes, throw us back in time to the former regime".

When Mr. Chambers came along, he found them working at cross-purposes, throwing money (that all too often disappeared) at third-world governments.

Though McEnroe claims he never blew up on purpose, to throw off an opponent, the book offers a more complex picture.

Don that cape and mask with purpose and throw yourself headlong into the crusade for truth, meaning and creative justice with everything you've got.

He initiated the study of linkage in man specifically for the purpose of throwing light on hereditary disease risks.

Nor did the studios serve any public purpose by throwing people out of their jobs.

Here was architecture of the past, fit for new purpose, cruelly thrown away for something cheap and fashionable that we have only come to despise more with age.

Beijing achieved its purpose of throwing Tokyo onto the defensive, but is wrong to oppose Japan's Security Council bid and reckless to stir up past grievances.

This, I conceive, the court can do without subjecting itself to the criticism of singling out a witness, in its instructions, for the purpose of throwing distrust upon his testimony.