How to use "purpose" in a sentence

"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists

I take the official oath today with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules

I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it WILL Constitutionally defend and maintain itself.

I will venture to add that to me the convention mode seems preferable, in that it allows amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead of only permitting them to take or reject propositions originated by others not especially chosen for the purpose, and which might not be precisely such as they would wish to either accept or refuse

To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied Constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.

'You're a rogue, Slinkton, and I've caught you! I took these rooms on purpose, just to catch you

'I took these rooms on purpose,' Beckwith went on

That boat was sunk on purpose.'

I believe that Rebecca lied to me on purpose

After all, as fantastic as it was, the show was only a come-on, a draw, with the sole purpose of putting a few thousand people into the hotel every night

She had lost the momentum occasioned by her anger, and now she was afraid of losing the sense of purpose that had driven her to confront him

For the first time, I realized that perhaps the Martians had another purpose, apart from destroying human beings