apurpose

Example Sentences

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My hunch is your Art editor slipped that one in apurpose to catch the pickup.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seems as if they made preserving kettles apurpose so's they'd tip up when you go to pour anything....

From Back Home by Wood, Eugene

But the sasser and the pickle-dish and George's wife's lemonade-glass and Abbie Carter's cracker-jar—I done them apurpose.

From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

Bold Hagen, I ween, had done it apurpose.

From The Fall of the Niebelungs by Armour, Margaret

There's the kitchen bedroom, that I keep apurpose to camp down in.

From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)