Sentence examples for sometimes purpose from inspiring English sources

(Sometimes purpose has a more existential meaning, as in "there is a purpose to the universe", or "my life has meaning"—subjects well outside of what science can comment upon).

Sometimes purpose comes in forms that aren't so celebratory.

These days, they point out, we are always generating data about ourselves, sometimes on purpose but also in passing, as we use cell phones, swipe I.D. cards, send e-mails, and simply walk the streets.

Sometimes the purpose is explicitly polemical.

Sometimes the purpose of using a pen scanner is surreptitious.

The ghosts fade into the background, sometimes on purpose, other times not.

"People do shoot down airliners, sometimes on purpose," said Gideon Ewers, a spokesman for pilots association.

Yet the picture is energetic and unashamedly unoriginal and occasionally diverting, sometimes on purpose.

Sometimes, the purpose is to keep America's adversaries off balance.

Whether as journalist, novelist, or character, Stephen Glass gets almost everything wrong — sometimes on purpose, sometimes because he just can't help it.

** Whether as journalist, novelist, or character, Stephen Glass gets almost everything wrong — sometimes on purpose, sometimes because he just can't help it.