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intent - use in sentences
Preposition: that
- recipient: Most obvious is the intent that the recipient understands who is invited.
Converse of object
- seem: Her entire crazy family seems intent on driving her mad.
- declare: The reality is that their actions are miles apart from their declared intent.
- appear: But previous stage treatments have appeared intent on presenting his tales merely as more explicit medieval precursors of the Carry On romps.
- prove: There was also a problem of proving intent of direct incitement where people denied that their intention had been to incite people.
- indicate: Article 9, Paragraph 4 of the Public Order Order indicates that intent has to be proved.
- deny: He offered no explanation for his actions, but denied any malicious intent.
Adjective modifier
- malicious: There's no evidence of malicious intent here, it's all assumed.
- murderous: At later levels the warehouse acquires a few ghosts which chase you with murderous intent.
- undetermined: Some 800 people die by suicide or ' undetermined intent ' in Scotland each year, about 20 of them in the Scottish Borders.
- deliberate: Neither will anything created with the deliberate intent of causing a current non-celebrity to meet the definition criteria.
- hostile: Hostile intent involves a willingness to effectively conduct economic espionage against the United States and the capacity to do so.
- avowed: There's no discouragement shall make him once relent His first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.
Preposition: on
- revenge: But intent on revenge, the Darkwing plots to destroy their powerful Empire in his quest for survival.
Used with adjective complement
- seem: Indeed, Morris seems particularly intent to depict casual coupling with a variety of gender variations.
Noun used with modifier
- rendering: Need to watch rendering intents, but I get very few problems.
Possessives
- commander: This intensity, based on the commander's stated intent, will be maintained throughout the crisis.
- author: The author's intent is to show Peter's restoration has been accomplished.
Preposition: of
- commander: The intent of the commander drives target selection and battle plan of counter-C2.
- author: However, the intent of the authors is generally clear.
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