on purpose
Deliberately, intentionally, as in He left the photo out of the story on purpose. Shakespeare's use of this idiom was among the earliest; it appears in The Comedy of Errors (4:3): “On purpose shut the doors against his way.”
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How to use on purpose in a sentence
If one tried to do the thing all at once it would look too on-purpose.
Told in a French Garden | Mildred AldrichThe frontier between France and Spain is a great wide river-on purpose to give us another bridge.
The Lightning Conductor | C. N. WilliamsonWe bucked into the fortunes of war; it's a sort of accident, a sort of on-purpose accident, all the way through.
The Brighton Boys in the Trenches | James R. Driscoll
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