Sentence examples for quite purposely from inspiring English sources

As a child I would break things, not quite purposely.

From the third-grade boys who twisted my name up until I hated the sound of it, to the sixth-grade girls who wrote the mean notes about my glasses and braces and left them, quite purposely, for me to find, every time we moved when I was young, I found myself marooned in a new school where I felt neither safe nor happy.

It is perhaps, and quite purposely, not the boldest choice — another white male, it will be widely noted, hosting another talk show — but broadcast television networks are not in the business of making bold choices.

He used that term as the title for his classic 1984 oral history of World War II and included those quotation marks quite purposely to highlight the irony of such thinking about a war in which an estimated 60 million people died.

I think what we do with "Sherlock," quite purposely, and I think you'll see this when you see our second run, is that we put the 13 weeks or the 26 weeks of development into three 90-minute [films], and that gives it its feel.

Ms. Dunn and her colleagues have purposely selected quite ordinary people who must spend at least 10 hours with the experiments.

They say that despite his seemingly penurious way of living, he is actually quite wealthy, that he purposely spent almost nothing on his 1996 campaign to skirt federal election laws, which require candidates who spend more than $5,000 to file reports disclosing their assets.

(It would seem that the word disproportionate doesn't quite capture the moral dimension of purposely bombing civilians, but whatever).

While society as a whole is becoming considerably more tolerant of non-traditional families, these conversations, among others, have led me to believe that the "purposely childless family" isn't quite socially acceptable yet.

As we walked, Mr. Saenz told us how the Apache purposely left no trace on the land, quite the opposite of Silver's "built to last" ethos.

The two-course sequence was purposely designed to have the first term quite similar to Calculus 1, so that students could switch freely between the standard Math 111/112-Calculus 1/2 and the life science sequence.