Sentence examples for purpose was served from inspiring English sources
There Gawker would have to persuade ordinary people that some legitimate purpose was served by this exercise in public humiliation.
The levels of irony here are too complex for me to decipher, but regardless, the purpose was served.
The lawyer, Robert Badinter, a former justice minister, said last week that "no purpose was served" in keeping Mr. Papon in jail.
If they had already promised not to promote legalization, the government's practical purpose was served, without asking for declarations of feeling.
We retired this sport after a mechanic checking my oil asked me what purpose was served by the plethora of paper lawn bags stuck under my hood.
Nor what useful purpose is served.
"No purpose is served by prolonging these issues," he said.
Clearly there must be some larger purpose being served here.
But no useful purpose is served by calling them "rights".
I saw absolutely no purpose being served by coming out.
