Sentence examples for whether on purpose from inspiring English sources

Nadine Hipauf said she worried somebody may have poisoned Knut — whether on purpose or not.

Was he also your mentor? A. My father definitely has been a mentor — whether on purpose or by osmosis.

In copies of religious texts and poems, he tends to drop words and sometimes whole lines, whether on purpose or because of memory lapses is hard to say.

The defense secretary had stepped in close, physically crowding him during an early meeting -- whether on purpose or subconsciously is anyone's guess -- and General Pace did not flinch.

"He panned poetry gold, whether on purpose or by accident is irrelevant … He gave back to poetry its elevated style, lost since the romantics".

An inch or so of space had been left between the horizontal boards, whether on purpose or not wasn't clear; rays of morning sun shone through, casting a row of bright parallel lines on the floor.

He had stepped in front of a train--whether on purpose or by accident no one in his family knows.

There remains some disagreement as to who fired first and whether Hamilton missed on purpose.

I don't recall whether I left it on purpose or not.

It misses on purpose.

Whether done on purpose or subconsciously, the moderators and candidates simply left out certain topics and challenges that we need solutions and answers for.