INTENT in a Sentence

Learn INTENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

260 example sentences for INTENT, such as:

1. I have no intention of retiring just yet.
2. She affirmed her intention to apply for the post.
3. I had enough presence of mind not to mention my intention.
4. You see, I had every intention of voting Liberal Democrat.
5. I have no intention to disclose their names for security reason.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intent
 n.  something that is intended; aim or purpose
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She sat silent, intent on nothing, while the baby, already glutted with milk, whimpered because he had lost the friendly nipple.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  And yet he would torment and insult her and deny that such was his intent, should she accuse him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  Scarlett had given no thought to this, so intent was she upon the money the mill would bring in.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  He put his hand under her chin, quietly turned her face up to the light and looked for an intent moment into her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
5  He was a mournful dyspeptic, intent on finding out the deleterious ingredients of every dish and diverted from this care only by the sound of his wife's voice.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
6  Rosedale remained seated, too intent on his thoughts to notice her movement.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
7  He did; and then it seemed to me that he was dogging us, but with what intent I could not for the life of me imagine.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19. The Prophet.
8  I was resolved to satisfy myself whether this ragged Elijah was really dogging us or not, and with that intent crossed the way with Queequeg, and on that side of it retraced our steps.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19. The Prophet.
9  With one mind, their intent eyes all fastened upon the old man's knife, as he carved the chief dish before him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
10  He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
11  He seemed swimming with his utmost velocity, and now only intent upon pursuing his own straight path in the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
12  He walked between them, whether with malicious or mischievous intent was not wholly clear, even to himself.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In X
13  Cora was in the act of speaking, with an intent to advise the woman to abandon the trifle, when the savage relinquished his hold of the shawl, and tore the screaming infant from her arms.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
14  The heathen are abroad in goodly numbers," said David; "and, I fear, with evil intent.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
15  My object in working steadily was to remove any suspicion he might entertain of my intent to run away; and in this I succeeded admirably.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
16  She affirmed her intention to apply for the post.
17  I have no intention of retiring just yet.
18  He apologizes for his comments and says he had no intention of offending the community.
19  You see, I had every intention of voting Liberal Democrat.
20  I had enough presence of mind not to mention my intention.
21  A slight movement of the hand telegraphed his intention to shoot.
22  My original intention was to study all morning, but this turned out to be impractical.
23  The intention is that over extended periods of time equivalent machines receive an equivalent amount of resource.
24  The shareholders have manifested their intention to sell the shares.
25  The intention is to be a book, and not a radio drama or play, I will rate it here.
26  I have no intention to disclose their names for security reason.
27  They have intention to publish them, so that the parents could recognize sexually deviant persons and protect their children from their impact.
28  What did he mean by such a pagan idea? I had no intention of dying with him.
29  It surprised me when I first discovered that such was his intention: I had thought him a man unlikely to be influenced by motives so commonplace in his choice of a wife; but the longer I considered the position, education.
30  Most potentially explosive is the announced intention of two major conferences, the Big Ten and Pacific-10, to explore expansion.