How to Use intended in a Sentence

intended

adjective
  • The book failed to reach its intended audience.
  • The cell doesn’t drift away from its intended state with each cycle.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Your ideas might never even reach their intended goal.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 3 June 2026
  • What was his intended schedule for breaking this news to her?
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2026
  • It's now being used among teens, but not for its intended purpose.
    — Kristina Behr, Parents, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Its age shows in places, and it doesn’t get used so much for its intended purpose anymore.
    — Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2022
  • There are some things that are a little bit more intended to be substantive.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Crews will then guide the liner by hand to its intended location.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 14 May 2026
  • But Carr's threat had its intended effect.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
  • In the end, the strike had the opposite of its intended effect.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The intended format of the talks matched up with Lukashenko's vision.
    — Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Your intended space will need to accommodate a bed frame.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 17 June 2026
  • The notice did not detail which plot of land would be given to the state or the intended purpose.
    — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The lottery awards you a time slot to apply for a permit four months before your intended hike-out date.
    — Madison Chapman, Outside, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In fact, the core messages can get garbled if the media can’t keep up with the intended meaning.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • If a space isn’t being used for its intended purpose, then what else can manifest there?
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 June 2026
  • In my view, emergency funds should not be tapped to close budget gaps but saved for their intended purpose.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Now, the Kings will head into the start of the season without one of its intended starters.
    — Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Oct. 2025
  • But those posts haven’t always reached their intended audience.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The intended end results are the same as ever, but the method of getting there is different.
    — David Nield, WIRED, 3 Dec. 2023
  • These categories are based on the risk the device may present to a consumer who uses it in the intended way.
    — Jenni Shearston, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2026
  • So that’s part of the dark side of the technology, even for people who use it for its intended purpose.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Bottom line, a skier has to trust every muscle in their body to perform as intended.
    — Devon Henderson, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • But then Warren stepped forward to clarify that the ban was very much intended.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
  • Delivering the alarm did not in each case take much time, didn’t much slow Revere on his intended path.
    — Kostya Kennedy, Time, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Their answers can reveal where your intended brand and your actual one diverge.
    — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Though the students were the intended audience, parents soon became just as amazed.
    — Ashley Vega, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • And there is no intended violence, although plenty of head-banging for laughs.
    — Katie Grant, Parents, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The designs are best viewed from above, raising questions about intended observers and function.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Plants remain small through maturity and do not outgrow their intended space.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 13 May 2026

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