answer the purpose
Example Sentences
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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.
From Time Magazine Archive
It would answer the purpose quite as well—perhaps better," the doctor added thoughtfully,—"if her husband could be removed from the environment.
From Concerning Sally by Hopkins, William John
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
The better known book is preferred before the less known, the conservative when it will answer the purpose, before the destructive.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
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
