INTENTIONALLY in a Sentence

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260 example sentences for INTENTIONALLY, such as:

1. Hell is paved with good intentions.
2. I had completely misread his intentions.
3. His plan is incompatible with my intentions.
4. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
5. No words can be the disguise of base intentions.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTENTIONALLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intentionally
 ad.  deliberately; consciously
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But at least, Mama, you cannot deny the absurdity of the accusation, though you may not think it intentionally ill-natured.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
2  Vronsky intentionally avoided that select crowd of the upper world, which was moving and talking with discreet freedom before the pavilions.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 24
3  He evidently quite misunderstood, and apparently intentionally misunderstood, the conditions upon which the land had been given to him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 29
4  The third day Nikolay induced his brother to explain his plan to him again, and began not merely attacking it, but intentionally confounding it with communism.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 32
5  But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VII
6  He considers that Rousseau certainly told lies about himself in his confessions, and even intentionally lied, out of vanity.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: XI
7  The prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was his wont, as if intentionally contrasting the briskness of his manners with the strict formality of his house.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVII
8  These sayings were prepared in the inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to drawing room.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
9  If one places one's self at the culminating point of view of the question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
10  Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, either intentionally or accidentally.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
11  Father Gillenormand did not do it intentionally, but inattention to proper names was an aristocratic habit of his.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER TH...
12  The number of lights had been intentionally diminished, but the young woman could not conceal the traces of the fever which had devoured her for two days.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 36 DREAM OF VENGEANCE
13  We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
14  My manners must have been in fault, but not intentionally, I assure you.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 58
15  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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
16  They have intention to publish them, so that the parents could recognize sexually deviant persons and protect their children from their impact.
17  What did he mean by such a pagan idea? I had no intention of dying with him.
18  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.
19  Most potentially explosive is the announced intention of two major conferences, the Big Ten and Pacific-10, to explore expansion.
20  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.
21  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.
22  He dissimulated his intentions right up to the moment of the attack.
23  No words can be the disguise of base intentions.
24  The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
25  I had completely misread his intentions.
26  Hell is paved with good intentions.
27  Trade having been done, they settled to take the meal, to eat, to indicate their good intentions.
28  His plan is incompatible with my intentions.
29  Thus, it is difficult for children to relate the task to their own communicative intentions.
30  These people have good intentions to make a profit, but they are too greedy, which is why we have regulation.