purpose in English:

playYou know I would never hurt you on purpose

Did y'all smack me into that mountain on purpose?

You make it sound as if I did it on purpose!

I edition purpose

It hurts more if you believe somebody is doing it to you on purpose

I bet you he left his report card here on purpose so we would compliment him on his grades. I don't understand—why would you run into the bumper of another car on purpose?

I didn't do it on purpose - it was an accident.

I spilled my drink on purpose -- I needed an excuse to leave the room.

I'm sorry. I didn't hurt you on purpose.

The youth explained that it was an accident; he hadn't broken the window on purpose.

Do you think that loopholes are created on purpose?

You've done that on purpose! You spoilt brat!

I am sure you did it on purpose. You just wanted to annoy me.

That wasn"t an accident!!! You did it on purpose.

I think you did this on purpose.

My aim is to learn enough English so I don't need to carry a dictionary with me when I travel.

Even when their main aim is to relax, travellers said that they enjoyed seeing the sights.

to aim

Beyond the novel, we come to works whose avowed aim is information.

No one in the village knew that the soldiers were taking aim at their village.

All of these sports and many others are dominated by the human urge to aim at something.

Granting that the aim is right, how will you carry out the plan?

Companions with the same aim, to carve out their own future, cooperate with each other.

They're some developers who aim to make a fast buck!

Our aim is that, when planning classes, we know how to select stimulating material for the students and how to put it into use.

They aimed to create products that were simple in design and could be easily mass produced. Some Bauhaus designers even tried to create an 'International Style', which would be suitable for all countries, cultures and traditions.

for/at sth / to do sth / be aimed at doing sth. - Aimed at higher efficiency or income

The government is aiming for 100% employment.

Sally hopes to get good marks because she’s aiming to go to university.

It's so hot that you could cook an egg on the hood of a car.

If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.

on the table

I think it's dangerous to climb a mountain on a day when it's stormy.

We pigged out on pizza and chicken at lunchtime.

The background check on Tom turned up suspiciously little.

Tom boiled some eggs on the rocket stove that he had just built.

Tom lives on a farm with his wife, Mary, not too far from Boston.

You walk on and I'll catch up with you later.

He knows that his critics are waiting to pounce on any slip that he makes.

People often lie about what they did on the weekend, so their friends won't realize how boring they really are.

Even though there were many cookies on the dish, I only ate three.

A bust of Aristotle stands on a pedestal in the entryway.

If it's okay for her to buy a knife, then why on earth can't I?

On Friday evenings, a group of us with spouses working overseas meet at Chuck's Bar and Grill.

It's a dead end.

Killing your spouse is one way to end a marriage. However, it's frowned upon.

It may seem like a lot of trouble to go through, but in the end, you'll be happy you did it.

Whatever happens, I'll stick to my principles to the bitter end.

If I happen to end up going abroad, I'd probably go for France.

How did you end up on your own?

When I'm with a crying baby, I end up wanting to cry myself!

Japan's gold and foreign exchange reserves stood at $68.9 billion at the end of 1998, down from $77.0 billion a year earlier.

Even at the end of the nineteenth century, sailors in the British Navy were not permitted to use knives and forks because using them was considered a sign of weakness.

The baseball game was so exciting that everyone stayed until the very end.

The swimmer, Cindy Nicholas, barely made it ashore at Dover at the end of the exhausting swim, but a spokesman from the Channel Swimming Association announced that she was in very good shape.

I hate it when I work late and end up missing an episode of a show I'm following.

In the end, because of the disease, he became unable to walk and had to use a motorized wheelchair to get around.

Relationships built on money will end when the money runs out.

World War One did not end quickly or easily.