Sentence examples for purpose was over from inspiring English sources

I experienced confusion and shock from some pharmacy employees when requesting naloxone, and had to explain to some seemingly clueless staff the spelling of the product and what its purpose was over and over again.

The game, for all practical purposes, was over at that point.

And then suddenly blood was flowing aboard Luna Rossa and the race, for all intents and purposes, was over.

The British captured King Cetshwayo in August 1879, and the war, to all intents and purposes, was over.

The proportion of subjects who perceived the family as an unfriendly environment and of those who agreed with violence against woman for corrective purposes was over two-fold among those that had witnessed domestic violence between their parents and those that were beaten within their FOO.

"I knew that for all intents and purposes, the search was over," Wolf said.

For all practical purposes, the game was over, and James had given the enthusiastic audience what it had come to see.

By Peter Bodo, Tennis.com NEW YORK -- For all practical purposes the match was over, although you could almost have made that observation at any stage of Novak Djokovic's 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 third-round win over Julien Benneteau.

The investigation, for all intents and purposes, is over".

As of tonight the Rangers' season, for all intents and purposes, is over.

After six years and nearly $60 million of taxpayer money, the Whitewater investigation, for all practical purposes, is over.