Below you will find example sentences with "sole purpose". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Sole Purpose in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: sole
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.3 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "sole purpose" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as as its sole purpose is for, for the sole purpose of dispensing, money, man and woman stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with sole director, sole survivor, sole source, sole director, sole survivor and sole source, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with sole purpose
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
The church should look out for these fraudulent red flags in church, when their sole purpose is money. (18 words)
To her, continuing that pregnancy and delivering her daughter for the sole purpose of watching her perish was torture. (19 words)
Except that some others will also be rocking up, with the sole purpose of spoiling the shindig for everyone else. (20 words)
Unknown to the greedy upstart, the beautiful lady belongs in the realm of the dead and she only assumes the body of the living for the sole purpose of dispensing largess to the needy as agreed upon by her husband in the grave! (43 words)
The court also heard that Bradshaw travelled to Jamaica with the sole purpose of killing the woman and her child and that she booked a ticket to the island a day after learning about the baby’s existence. (38 words)
She told viewers she lost her her best friend, her stepdad, who helped fuel her passion for music at an early age and was the sole purpose of her experiencing her childhood years in the Carolinas. (36 words)
Unknown to the greedy upstart, the beautiful lady belongs in the realm of the dead and she only assumes the body of the living for the sole purpose of dispensing largess to the needy as agreed upon by her husband in the grave! (43 words)
Example sentences (20)
But if the sole purpose was to destroy a voting majority, or block a takeover bid, that would be an improper purpose.
According to the Expat Blog, a sanky-panky is, "a man who is going out with a foreign woman with the sole purpose of extracting as much money as possible from her.
Except that some others will also be rocking up, with the sole purpose of spoiling the shindig for everyone else.
However, it is important to note that the touch screen does not work for menus, as its sole purpose is for focusing.
If a property investor, however, buys a house or unit with the sole purpose of making a capital gain there is a risk that the wider community could be the loser.
Its sole purpose is to accumulate capital, and money, and to distribute that money to a network of officials in return for their ongoing support for this business model.
Puppetry has been an ancient global art with the sole purpose of entertainment and education of the public through use of different forms and styles of puppets.
She explained laughing that show bosses would ask for a car to be moved further down the street with the sole purpose of covering her bump.
She told viewers she lost her her best friend, her stepdad, who helped fuel her passion for music at an early age and was the sole purpose of her experiencing her childhood years in the Carolinas.
The church should look out for these fraudulent red flags in church, when their sole purpose is money.
The court also heard that Bradshaw travelled to Jamaica with the sole purpose of killing the woman and her child and that she booked a ticket to the island a day after learning about the baby’s existence.
The sheep – continually bleating the pigs’ propaganda slogans – Nyarota likened to Zanu-PF’s women’s league “whose existence seems to be for the sole purpose of singing praise songs of… the ruling party”.
The sole purpose of creating a separate dedicated fund for financing safety-related works was defeated, as safety-related works were held up due to fund constraints," it said.
The upshot was that a buyer could not be gifted or loaned money by a third party for the sole purpose of purchasing the condo.
To her, continuing that pregnancy and delivering her daughter for the sole purpose of watching her perish was torture.
A spokesperson from the trust commented: "Our fundraising events are delivered with the sole purpose of raising additional funds so we can do even more vital work with young people.
But it quickly devolved into a witch hunt where people formed armed militias with the sole purpose of hunting and killing meta-humans.
Tunji-Ojo, a man forged to tackle adversity, plunged straight into the NIS with the sole purpose of radically transforming the agency to provide seamless service to Nigerians.
Unknown to the greedy upstart, the beautiful lady belongs in the realm of the dead and she only assumes the body of the living for the sole purpose of dispensing largess to the needy as agreed upon by her husband in the grave!
Back in September 2019, UK cybersecurity company discovered a collection of Android apps in the Google Play marketplace which had the sole purpose of overcharging users for mobile apps that provided very simple functionality.