Purpose used in a sentence

Purpose in a sentence as a noun

Laughing at noobs and being mean to them is pretty much the sole purpose of IRC, unless I'm mistaken.

It's easy to train kids to learn some task for some as-at-yet determined future purpose.

A machine who's intentions are totally pure - it's sole purpose is simply to learn.

Though if applied merely mechanically, it might be used for such a purpose, it ought not be used that way.

My purpose was not to ***** about them, and many people who will read this post in my network will know who I'm talking about.

What do you think the purpose of the platform developer relations executive is?

In true cargo cult fashion, they have adopted the trappings of education without understanding the real purpose behind it.

Confusing the Apache Software Foundation for your coding sandbox only suggests you don't understand the true purpose of either.

Purpose in a sentence as a verb

As they gather huge amounts of power, their purpose in life becomes to guard that power jealously and to increase it as opportunities permit.

You have to look beyond the law to what its purpose is - to prevent companies from exploiting your personal information, and to force them to tell you what data they hold.

It did not limit itself to copying select portions for some discrete educational purpose but copied every work in its entirety.

Give them the powers, and they will be misused - in this case they were used on a relative of someone nothing to do with terrorism purely for the purpose of intimidation.

I can't even imagine being held captive without arrest for hours, being questioned about the purpose of my trip, about my religion and habits, all while travelling within my country.

It's a huge number of people that most of the technorati ignore - Facebook captured that market practically by accident, and Pinterest is exploding because somebody finally thought to actually aim in that direction on purpose.

That is the purpose of writing a 10-page critical analysis of a theme in a Shakespeare play, or building a toy memory allocator: not because knowing Shakespeare or being able to write malloc is important, but because it teaches students to think and analyze.