Sentence examples for were purpose from inspiring English sources

Missions were purpose.

With estate agents waxing lyrical about the "smell of the sea, the scent of pines and  panoramic views of nature" you could almost be forgiven for forgetting the sinister past of  the luxury Baltic seaside apartments at New Prora, which were purpose built for 20,000 members of Adolf Hitler's Aryan "master race".

None of these sites were purpose built, and all of the waste is above groundwater level.

Railway tracks were purpose – build: nothing else could run on them – and trains could run on nothing else.

Both the PDA (acting as a thin client) and server applications were purpose built using Java technology (Sun Microsystems now owned by Oracle, California, USA).

Three machines were purpose built for the trial (Acupak, Melbourne, Australia) for concurrent use in a number of centres.

Dom kommuny were purpose-built, with enough living space for each tenant, with social life specially provided for in built-in canteens, libraries and parks.

Physically, the exhibition starts in the Duveen galleries, which were purpose-built in 1937 precisely to display the kind of giant, monumental work which is on show there today.

Sure, I.B.M. has built monstrously fast computers to play chess and "Jeopardy!," but Deep Blue and Watson were purpose-built, dedicated machines that excel only at the particular games for which they were built; Watson, built to conquer the game show "Jeopardy!," would be hard-pressed to play chess.

In total some 200 vessels were purpose-built or upgraded on Clydeside, in Liverpool or in London for the Confederate states – and hundreds of thousands of guns (including heavy artillery) were manufactured in Birmingham, Newcastle and near London for the Confederate Army.

There were purposes behind that nostalgia.