How to Use as intended in a Sentence

as intended

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  • With more than a third of the season in the rearview mirror, his vision has not transpired as intended.
    — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
  • The Speed 12 did win a few races in Britain but never competed at Le Mans as intended.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Many of you are on an endless quest to own the best printer or figure out the right tips to make your printers work as intended.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
  • At the time, 31 of the rocket's 33 engines ignited and burned as intended.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Of the three bombs McNamara had planted, only the one at The Times worked as intended.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
  • While the blemishes may vary, the merchant says all of the cookware will perform as intended.
    — Nena Farrell, WIRED, 12 July 2023
  • Whether the implant works as intended also remains to be seen.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • But what is the evidence that such programs work as intended?
    — Marcella Alsan, STAT, 26 Dec. 2023
  • And the story here is the fact that the system is working as intended and protecting human and public health.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2024
  • Has anyone put anything out into the world — could be an episode, a scene, an anything — and have it not be received as intended?
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2024
  • According to Stern, that’s the law working as intended.
    — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • The zippers are difficult to distinguish and didn't work as intended in our tests.
    — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The front passenger seat weight sensor may crack and short circuit, failing to suppress the air bag as intended.
    — USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
  • On Tuesday, however, Homendy said the system appeared to have been working as intended, and was not the cause of the expulsion of the door plug.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The bullet pierced the cooling fins of the transformer, as intended, causing mineral oil to gush onto the sagebrush.
    — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • If the system works as intended, those migrants could be on their way to deportation with a felony charge in hand within days.
    — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 11 May 2023
  • Our water systems have worked largely as intended for decades — but they weren’t built for the 21st century.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Our water systems have worked largely as intended for decades — but they weren’t built for the 21st century.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But come by our houses during the season to find the streams of admirers enjoying the displays with glee, as intended.
    — WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The Fed’s latest series of rate hikes has worked as intended in taming inflation.
    — Steve Garmhausen, wsj.com, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Now a true believer, Ben proves his camera works as intended.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
  • The crafts are also designed to appeal to a fairly wide age range, from about 3 to about 9; though the company states that younger crafters will likely need help to complete the projects as intended.
    — Julia Pelly, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023
  • This is the trend cycle — dollar signs in its eyes — working as intended: an antique hits shelves once more just as those very products have been cleared out of makeup bags and tossed in the trash.
    — Emily Leibert, Allure, 25 Jan. 2024
  • There’s a bit of time tension with the chefs struggling to pit the cherries, and certain dishes clearly aren’t coming together as intended.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The rate hikes have slowly helped to suppress inflation, though perhaps not as quickly as intended.
    — Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
  • An air bag that does not deploy as intended increases the risk of injury during a crash, the company said in a safety report.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 12 June 2023
  • The treatment arrived too late to save Mallory’s life, Shader Smith writes in a last chapter of the book, but her autopsy revealed that the phages had started to work as intended.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 18 May 2024
  • Bard will also be able to help debug code if a particular snippet doesn’t work as intended.
    — Matt Novak, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The fact that the new Biden system is working as intended is encouraging, Nuñez-Neto said in an interview.
    — Nick Miroff and Toluse Olorunnipa, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2023
  • Use fireworks as intended and avoid altering them or combining them.
    — John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 3 July 2024

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