Yet at other times an underlying purpose seems to raise its head.

Its whole purpose seems to be to copy itself into other computers.

There seemed a purpose in the fact that it had missed its mark.

Suddenly the whole purpose of the book seems to pivot on the answer to just this question, a bad move.

However, its purpose seems to be viewed as one of providing information.

His purpose seemed to be an appeal to the Canadian people over the heads of their elected leaders.

Even when she is outside tossing a ball, the purpose seems only to demonstrate that what goes up must also come down.

All the purpose seemed to have been drained out of me.

The purpose of the announcement seems to be to let us know that our leaders are alert.

The whole purpose of ball players today seems to be money and living in big houses.