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

I had got that stone loaded onto a strong truck that I had rigged up apurpose; then I started up and got the cattle headed up Main Street in fine shape.

From The Wrong Woman by Stewart, Charles D.

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)

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)