without purpose
Example Sentences
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WSJ: How did you come up with the idea of life without work and without purpose?
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025
Djokovic continued, waving his right hand without purpose.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2023
“I rode the tram without purpose and walked for hours at a time,” she tells us, “so that I would sometimes become lost and need to consult the map on my phone.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2021
"Time without purpose is a prison," she says.
From Salon • Jun. 21, 2021
When she’d been a Christian, she had felt connected, too; but when she left the Church, she felt loose and free and light, in a universe without purpose.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
