Sentence examples for purposeful air from inspiring English sources

One day in 2007, Lisa left the house with a purposeful air.

She too wears a long-suffering expression, but this time it's coupled with a purposeful air, which seems to indicate the interview is over.

"They throw away thousands of perfectly good pocket knives?" "I said we throw 'em away," he repeated sternly, walking away with the purposeful air of someone who would happily impound a Boy Scout's whistle.

Though it was a good 10 years ago now, I still see him from the bus sometimes, striding along the high street with a purposeful air, guitar on his back – well-groomed and not dead.

Hi-efficiency heat pumps or furnaces are absolutely essential to any purposeful transformation; air conditioning may not be as essential everywhere as previously assumed.

Equipment: sneakers, jeans, a polo shirt, and a purposeful, slightly preoccupied air (Yes, I have important business here).

Soon it is up in the air making purposeful figure eights.

Earlier, Broad advanced to his highest Ashes score before James Pattinson located the edge of his bat and Bell collected the five runs needed to bring up his first hundred against Australia in England, a landmark celebrated with a leap and purposeful punch at the air.

You feel purposeful energy humming in the air as you watch the inhabitants stroll through the maze of streets and lanes, arm in arm.

The animal in question is a female dachshund, with a sleek chestnut coat and a purposeful trot, plus the indefinable air that dachshunds have of being both highly perplexed by something (no breed has more expressive eyebrows) and determined to keep that something to themselves.

Then he steps out into the plaza at Quincy Market, striding through the raw ocean air with a new, purposeful swagger.