answer the purpose
Example Sentences
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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
If it were not possible to provide a buffalo head for the occasion, the skeleton of a deer, or a bear would answer the purpose as well.
From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Collins, Dennis
II., will just as317 well answer the purpose of exemplifying the Venetian love of gloom and wildness, united with perfect definition of detail.
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John
Houses eighteen or twenty feet wide, and five feet high at the eaves, will answer the purpose very well.
From Dwarf Fruit Trees Their propagation, pruning, and general management, adapted to the United States and Canada by Waugh, F. A.
