answer the purpose
Example Sentences
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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.
From Time Magazine Archive
A cable railway would answer the purpose to perfection, and the cost of running the steam motor would be insignificant, owing to the amount of wood and coal found within easy reach.
From Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. by Landor, A. H. Savage
This manufacture, I am told, is done with the assistance of three sticks, arranged in some way so as to answer the purpose of a loom, and the strands are inlaid diagonally.
From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives
"I have a good sized paper box which will answer the purpose, I think," said Mary Keith.
From Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children by Finley, Martha
This arrangement is one well calculated to answer the purpose of collectors, and therefore we desire to draw their attention to it.
