answer the purpose
Example Sentences
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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no town that would answer the purpose, and the place that suited best was Valley Forge on the Schuylkill River, twenty-one miles above Philadelphia.
From Mildred's New Daughter by Finley, Martha
Although the training of birds is not so ridiculous as it may seem, yet he found that geese, if not too tough, answer the purpose of a good roast much better.
From Lecture on Artificial Flight Given by request at the Academy of Natural Sciences by Krueger, Wm. G.
After that he showed the fat chum just what kind of a crotch to select from the scrub growing near the shore, and how to fashion it so that it would answer the purpose.
From Phil Bradley's Snow-shoe Trail The Mountain Boys in the Canada Wilds by Boone, Silas K.
Epsom salts, in ounce doses, given either as a gruel or a drench, will be found to answer the purpose well.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert
