intent upon
Example Sentences
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Instead of signing football's biggest established stars, the club became intent upon snapping up the game's next stars.
From BBC ● May 4, 2023
Its founder, the Rev. Arthur Atlas Peters, understood these limitations and was intent upon rising above them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2023
In a sport whose grand hodgepodge of contenders made it seem novel when No. 1 Iga Swiatek distanced herself up top in 2022, Rybakina seems intent upon neighboring Swiatek.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2023
“No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me,” Proust writes.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
When I did at last turn my eyes in Wemmick’s direction, I found that he had unposted his pen, and was intent upon the table before him.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
