INTENTIONAL in a Sentence

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260 example sentences for INTENTIONAL, such as:

1. Hell is paved with good intentions.
2. Of intentional liberty there is none.
3. I had completely misread his intentions.
4. And I have no intention of mending them.
5. His plan is incompatible with my intentions.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTENTIONAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intentional
 a.  characterized by conscious design or purpose
 a.  done or made or performed with purpose and intent
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He staggered as he said this, and then repeated the motion, trying to make it seem as if it had been intentional.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 34
2  Sergey Ivanovitch smiled at the intentional character of the question.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 14
3  They had not met since the day of the Van Osburgh wedding, and on his side the avoidance had been intentional.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
4  The lively song gave a special flavor to the tone of free and easy gaiety with which Zherkov spoke, and to the intentional coldness of Dolokhov's reply.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
5  Of intentional liberty there is none.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
6  Scarlett had no intention of leaving, no intention of placing herself where she could not have the first news of Ashley.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  And she arose the next morning with the fixed intention of packing her trunk immediately after breakfast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  But outnumbering these by far were men who, though carried on company rolls as deserters, had no intention of deserting permanently.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  And I have no intention of mending them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  It had been her intention to send Pork out with the horse and wagon, the gold pieces and the United States money to scour the countryside for provisions and material for clothes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  Scarlett certainly had no intention of feeding another mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
12  Scarlett, who had no intention of crying, beamed at him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  Archie thought, and frequently said, that Grandpa was an old bag of wind and Archie had no intention of letting him insult Miss Melanie's husband, even if Miss Melanie's husband was talking like a fool.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
14  And she had no intention of stopping her trips.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
15  Unable to agree with the Gentlemen's Glee Club as to the program for their next recital, the ladies had waited on Melanie that afternoon and announced their intention of withdrawing completely from the Musical Circle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
16  What did he mean by such a pagan idea? I had no intention of dying with him.
17  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.
18  Most potentially explosive is the announced intention of two major conferences, the Big Ten and Pacific-10, to explore expansion.
19  I did so, not at first aware what was his intention; but when I saw him lift and poise the book and stand in act to hurl it, I instinctively started aside with a cry of alarm.
20  The Syrian government, which is under intense scrutiny by Western nations and even the Arab league for human rights atrocities, was quick to clarify that it had no intention of using its massive stockpile of chemical weapons on civilians.
21  He dissimulated his intentions right up to the moment of the attack.
22  No words can be the disguise of base intentions.
23  The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
24  I had completely misread his intentions.
25  Hell is paved with good intentions.
26  Trade having been done, they settled to take the meal, to eat, to indicate their good intentions.
27  His plan is incompatible with my intentions.
28  Thus, it is difficult for children to relate the task to their own communicative intentions.
29  These people have good intentions to make a profit, but they are too greedy, which is why we have regulation.
30  Their actions were in conformity with their declared intentions.