Use intent in a sentence
Sentences ending with intent
- If I've done you service, admiral, be sure of this, it was done with clear intent. [11]
- In another corner two old bees are languidly fighting, or cleaning themselves, or feeding one another, without themselves knowing whether they do it with friendly or hostile intent. [2]
- A knock at the Reverend Mr. Fairweather's study door called his eyes from the book on which they were intent. [6]
- I ask you--what, save to act on our first and only wise intent? [10]
- His eyes were on the keyrock and the pile, alert, measuring, intent. [11]
- The minister was often consulted by his parishioners upon spiritual matters, and was in the habit of receiving in his study visitors who came with such intent. [6]
- So let us leave our blades in their sheaths and permit my curiosity, to ask just one more question: What consideration induces you, Sir Knight, to constrain yourself to discreet peaceableness toward me, who, Heaven knows, excited your ire with no evil intent? [10]
- It was not generally known that he was absent because a man by the name of Dennis, whose wife he had wronged, was dogging him with no good intent. [11]
- I watched closely, but could not guess the intent. [5]
- Their eyes met and stayed intent. [11]
Short sentences using intent
- Its intent is merely civil. [11]
More example sentences with the word intent in them
- And everywhere were workshops, factories, and all manner of industries; and intent faces and busy hands were to be seen wherever one looked; and in one's ears was the ceaseless clink of hammers, the buzz of trade and the contented hum of drums and fly-wheels. [5]
- Natasha watched him with an intent gaze that confused him, as if she were trying to find in his face the answer to some question. [2]
- He said it with an air of conflict, and with full intent to make his supremacy complete. [11]
- It was not wholly with intent that she leaned toward him, for the look of his eyes and the feel of his hands made her weak. [13]
- But this, Martin, who was only intent upon loading the return ship with "his phantastical gold," opposed, and Nelson did not think he had authority to allow it, unless they would bind themselves to pay the hire of the ships. [4]
- A Scientist out West has visited a bookseller--with intent to find fault with me--and has brought away the information that the price at which Mrs. Eddy sells Science and Health is not an unusually high one for the size and make of the book. [5]
- So intent, apparently, were both of them upon each other that they did not notice the group on the bench at the other side of the grove. [9]
- One by one we all had yielded to ceaseless intrigue and common distrust of each other, until no honest man was left; till all were intent to save their lives by holding power; for in this land to lose power is to lose life. [11]
- The Chief Factor was intent on what Shon was saying, while Lazenby drummed his fingers on the table, his nose in the air. [11]
- Mark Twain's mind was always busy with plans and inventions, many of them of serious intent, some semi-serious, others of a purely whimsical character. [5]
- Even Tom, intent upon the trail, turned and laughed at Polly Ann as she stood clutching me. [9]
- They were intent upon building up the colony. [4]
- Agne's flight remained unperceived for some little time, for every member of the merchant's household was at the moment intent on some personal interest. [10]
- At last he turned, and, seeing me intent, stooped, caught me by the arms, and lifted me upon the wall. [11]
- He was intent to produce, if possible, a figure which would breed and develop its own disasters, which would suffer profoundly for its own mistakes; but which, in the end, would triumph over the disasters of life and time. [11]
- I was intent to make a desperate fight. [11]
- Yet he seems to have been mainly intent upon society and the amusements of the passing hour, and, without the spur of necessity to his literary capacity, he yielded to the temptations of indolence, and settled into the unpromising position of a "man about town. [4]
- They were ready to do all that might become a Catholic intent to avenge the profaned honour of the Church and the faith. [11]
- He drifted silently through the dim reflections of the crags and trees, with his intent eyes fixed upon the low cliff which he was approaching. [5]
- So absorbed were they in the pursuit of wealth, of distraction, so satisfied with the current philosophy, so intent on surrounding themselves with beautiful things and thus shutting out the sterner view, that they had grown heedless of the divine message. [9]
- People sauntered, jerked themselves forward, moved in and out, as it were, intent on going everywhere and nowhere; and the excitement possessing them, the agitation in the air, made them seem still more exasperating, and bewildering. [11]
- So intent were the three it might have been a conference of war. [11]
- Hood's return, and the procession of the Lower House through the streets, and the arrival of the Good Intent, did high words arise among the quality. [9]
- He also noted the position of a pile of horse blankets, midway of the route, with the intent to levy upon them for the service of the crown of England for one night. [5]
- On the contrary, the other three--knaves and gamesters by their trade--while intent upon their game, were yet as cool and quiet as if every virtue had been centered in their breasts. [12]
- The end of the first phase came with the ride at the quick-set hedge, this with a less intent but as active a temper. [11]
- The reflection of the far-off fire bathed the glass, and her face had a glow, the eyes shining through, intent and most serious. [11]
- Others said, however, that, though there was good Reason to think it was a Damon, yet he did come with Intent to bite the Heel of that faithful Servant,--etc. [6]
- How intent was that vigil, how alert and sharpened her senses, a woman who has watched alone may answer. [9]
- Then I perceived that there was but small hope; with a heavy heart, and, indeed, a secret intent behind, I took the task upon me, for I saw plainly that my refusal would ruin all. [10]
- The Parson says that everybody is intent on reforming everything but himself. [4]
- But everybody was talking, and intent upon the grisly spectacle before them. [5]
- One of the Tabernacle--a vast iron hood or dome erected over rows of benches that will seat two or three thousand people--represents the building when it is packed with an audience intent upon the preacher. [4]
- Ruth sat quite still for a tine, with face intent and flushed. [5]
- To reach that stage was to keep him intent on this work--and--after that, to publish! [9]
- The surgeon was so intent upon at once fortifying himself that he did not see the look which passed between Rosalie and the tailor. [11]
- He was now so intent that he did not stir in his seat, but sat rigidly still, regarding Philip kindly. [11]
- Iberville let his ship drift on her path, intent on a hand-to-hand fight aboard the Bridgwater Merchant; the grappling-irons were ready, and as they drifted there was silence. [11]
- So intent had she been on what she had meant to tell him that she did not until now perceive he was preoccupied, and only half listening to what she was saying. [9]
- One day I set out with intent to trudge to Filey Bridge, but was frightened back by two cows. [14]
- Democracies, intent on self-realization and self-development, do not desire war. [9]
- She was not satisfied, but she went on talking, intent to find the cause of his abstraction. [11]
- For a despotic ruler is like a fiery steed; the latter endeavors to kick him who touches his wounds with intent to heal; the former punishes him who lays a hand on the weak or failing points of his diseased mind. [10]
- The woman is recalling a conversation which is more than two months old; besides, she was probably more intent upon the central and important fact of it than upon its unimportant date. [5]
- Most of the pupils glanced up languidly, but there were two among them that watched his movements with intent eyes. [5]
- I must quote one other sentence, as it shows his animus at that time towards a distinguished statesman of whom he was afterwards accused of speaking in very hard terms by an obscure writer whose intent was to harm him. [6]
- Charley, however, stitched on, intent upon his own struggle. [11]
- I think that Old Mountain Phelps had merely the instincts of the primitive man, and never any hostile civilizing intent as to the wilderness into which he plunged. [4]
- The youthful drivers of these camions are alert, intent, but a hard day's work on the docks by no means suffices to dampen the spirits of the passengers, who whistle ragtime airs as they bump over the cobbles. [9]
- At what period of his own life, or under what circumstances, he made the long journey with tragic intent there is no means of knowing now. [5]
- Whatever the power of his deadly intent toward Mormons, that passion now had a rival, the one equally burning and consuming. [13]
- Would the marching of an army into South Carolina, without the consent of her people, and with hostile intent toward them, be invasion? [7]
- In the absence of a more adequate motive than the evidence discloses, I am wholly unable to believe in the existence of criminal or fraudulent intent on the part of men of such well established good character. [7]
- That they did not, in such a case, make far greater gains, proves that they did not, with guilty or fraudulent intent, make at all. [7]
- Then could I no longer refrain myself, and asked whether it were verily and indeed her intent to part Herdegen from Ann. [10]
- Walking homeward, with my mind intent upon things to come, I met my mother at the corner of Lyme Street coming from church. [9]
- He did not move, but his eyes were intent upon hers and persistently held them. [11]
- Sorrow was to me the end and intent of life. [10]
- It seems to me that his ambitions are a little sordid--that he is too intent upon growing rich. [9]
- Moreover she had many a time heard my grand-uncle declare that the gentlemen of our patrician families were not above half knights, and her intent was to sacrifice Herdegen to the Brandenburger's weapon. [10]
- They repeated with malicious intent the gossip that Grant drank. [7]
- To this they made reply, while Uncle Conrad asked whether I had forgotten his counsels, and whither it was my intent to ride; whereupon I hastily replied: "Under safe guidance, that is to say yours, to follow Ann. [10]
- But huge and loose though the Seigneur's motions seemed, he was as intent as though there were but two beings in the universe, Leicester and himself. [11]
- We listened a long time, with intent faculties and bated breath; every time one of us would relax, and draw a long sigh of relief and start to say something, a comrade would be sure to utter a sudden "Hark! [5]
- Once, after a long silence, she started from a revery with the sudden consciousness of his look intent upon her, and turned with parted lips and eyes which smiled at him out of troubled depths. [9]
- His inquisitiveness had led him to explore it with no good intent when he lived in the house. [11]
- As strange as Lassiter's coolness was Venters's curious, intent scrutiny of them both, and under it Jane felt a flaming tide wave from bosom to temples. [13]
- In the afternoon it was his intent to come out to the forest with my uncle's leave, to see me. [10]
- And how sick it made me when somebody dropped, howsoever carelessly and barren of intent, the remark that 'murder will out! [5]
- What we see is not true freedom, but freedom run to riot, men struggling for themselves, spending on themselves the fruits of their inheritance; we see a government intent on one object alone--exploitation of this inheritance in order to achieve what it calls prosperity. [9]
- Pierre saw their intent, and hid in the ground some pemmican and all the scanty rum. [11]
- You make its intent this, you make it that, but nothing can alter the law, and what has been done in its name for generations. [11]
- But the most intent spectator of the scene was Parpon the dwarf, who was grotesquely crouched upon the wide ledge of a window. [11]
- They were all intent on their own business, each man labouring after his kind. [11]
- Their eyes were intent on each other. [11]
- He was so intent he did not hear. [11]
- They sat still, intent and waiting. [5]
- One hand was in his pocket, one foot swung clear of the ground; and he was not preaching, but talking in an easy, conversational tone to some forty young men who sat intent on his words. [9]
- Every word used in 1601 was used by our own rude pioneers as a part of their vocabulary--and no word was ever invented by man with obscene intent, but only as language to express his meaning. [5]
- Well, then, if I was so anxious to get that profit and so intent upon it, why did I threw it away by losing my temper? [5]
- So intent was I on overcoming her objections, that I resorted unwittingly to the modern argument I had more than once declared in court to be anathema-the argument of the new reform in reference to the common law and the constitution. [9]
- From that moment I loved her, but at the time I was much too intent on saving them, to think of anything else, and had no idea what had taken place within me. [10]
- Nay, meseems that I had of intent rent it only in twain, to the end that I might the better join it again. [10]
- I don't know how long I shall stay," she answered hurriedly, intent upon what was in her mind. [9]
- He bade his host good-bye and drove away intent to reach the city in time for breakfast. [11]
- Each intent upon his own business or pleasure, and striving the while by hook or crook to keep the ground from slipping beneath his feet. [9]
- He had seen his mistake of the morning, and was now intent to restore himself to favour. [11]
- He blew out his light, went below, and was soon loafing down the river road with the intent to borrow and use one of Roxy's devices. [5]
- His face betrayed his curiosity; he was intent on solving the question, why she always wore something about her neck. [6]
- The widow saw him before Tipton did, so intent was he on the struggle. [9]
- She thought of him as of one who, without evil intent, had done her great wrong; one whom she might not even remember without running into peril. [10]
- The second discovered herself intent upon the rhythm of his canter as it died southward upon the road. [9]
- Susan glanced at her, but Honora did not remark the expression on her friend's face, so intent was she on the reflections which Susan's words had aroused. [9]
- So intent was he, that at first he did not see a boat making into the bay towards him. [11]
- For several minutes he was motionless, intent, as an animal waiting for its foe. [11]
- Jameson would not have listened to me--he would have been intent upon repeating history, according to precedent. [5]
- We held our hands tight on our hearts, striving to call to mind some few of the words we had meditated with intent to speak them in defence of Herdegen. [10]
- He waved his hand slightly, declining the permission, and looked at her with an intent seriousness, which took no account of the immediate charm of her presence. [11]
- Unfortunately the animal had stopped to rest; therefore, Burke having his head down, intent upon the track, butted up against the elephant's hind legs before he was aware of his vicinity. [5]
- The adjutant, also, had evidently had no evil intent though he might have refrained from coming in. [2]
This page helps answer: how do I use the word intent in a sentence? How do you use intent in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word intent? It contains example sentences with the word intent, a sentence example for intent, and intent in sample sentence.