INTENTION in a Sentence

Learn INTENTION 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 INTENTION, such as:
1. And I have no intention of mending them.
2. I have no intention of retiring just yet.
3. And she had no intention of stopping her trips.
4. She affirmed her intention to apply for the post.
5. Scarlett, who had no intention of crying, beamed at him.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of INTENTION
intention
 n.  an act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out
 n.  (usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  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
2  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
3  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
4  And I have no intention of mending them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  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
6  Scarlett certainly had no intention of feeding another mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  Scarlett, who had no intention of crying, beamed at him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  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
9  And she had no intention of stopping her trips.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
10  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
11  I have no intention of discussing your soul's welfare any further.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
12  She had promised to marry him when she had had no intention of promising.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
13  Lily had no intention of taking advantage of her aunt's good nature.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
14  She no longer meant to destroy them: that intention had been effaced by the quick corrosion of Mrs. Peniston's words.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
15  She had no immediate intention of repeating to Lily what she had heard, or even of trying to ascertain its truth by means of discreet interrogation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  She affirmed her intention to apply for the post.
2  I have no intention of retiring just yet.
3  He apologizes for his comments and says he had no intention of offending the community.
4  You see, I had every intention of voting Liberal Democrat.
5  I had enough presence of mind not to mention my intention.
6  A slight movement of the hand telegraphed his intention to shoot.
7  My original intention was to study all morning, but this turned out to be impractical.
8  The intention is that over extended periods of time equivalent machines receive an equivalent amount of resource.
9  The shareholders have manifested their intention to sell the shares.
10  The intention is to be a book, and not a radio drama or play, I will rate it here.
11  I have no intention to disclose their names for security reason.
12  They have intention to publish them, so that the parents could recognize sexually deviant persons and protect their children from their impact.
13  What did he mean by such a pagan idea? I had no intention of dying with him.
14  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.
15  Most potentially explosive is the announced intention of two major conferences, the Big Ten and Pacific-10, to explore expansion.