How to Use purpose-built in a Sentence

purpose-built

adjective
  • Plus, the 84% polyester / 16% elastic blend is purpose-built to dry fast and wick away sweat like a champ.
    Mike Richard, Men's Health, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Jump to 1:01 in the below video to watch footage from the front of the Evija, purpose-built to tackle the record at the Nordschleife.
    Sean Evans, Robb Report, 30 July 2024
  • This venue is purpose-built to deliver perfect sound, the best ever.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Limited to a one-year production run of 3300 copies, it was purpose-built for drag racing.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 20 Mar. 2023
  • This is true for adults riding together too, unless the sled is purpose-built for tandem use.
    Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The unique, future-forward design is purpose-built for alpine running.
    Men's Health, 21 Feb. 2023
  • That means pretty much everything in the cannabis industry, including all of the tech, is purpose-built from scratch.
    Dustin Eide, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The actual hut was purpose-built for the common riding 100 years ago and now plays host to the pinnacle of its male bonding rituals.
    Yannic Rack, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • Apple took the wraps off the iPhone 16, the first generation of its flagship phones purpose-built for generative AI.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Viking also has a ship purpose-built for the Mississippi River.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 20 June 2024
  • The company later unveiled an electric shuttle called Origin that was purpose-built to be a robotaxi, and Cruise hoped to run a service by the end of 2019.
    David Welch, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • And yet the show is purpose-built not to elevate or to celebrate Winbush but to somewhat ruthlessly pull apart the ways in which she might be made to look unready for the job and unsteady on her feet.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 July 2023
  • There are lots of timers, even Pomodoro-technique-specific models, that are cheaper, smaller, and purpose-built.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 12 July 2024
  • On this elegant, rather clubby-vibing ship purpose-built for the region, relish plenty of deck space for viewing birds and marine life.
    Janice Wald Henderson, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The country’s northernmost region happens to be flush with hotels that are purpose-built for snoozing under the night sky, where the Northern Lights are visible about 200 nights a year.
    Paul Rubio, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The Storm Trails feel purpose-built for those with adventurous proclivities.
    Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • But mainframes, which are purpose-built to process enormous amounts of data, are still extremely relevant today.
    Andrew Hudson, Ars Technica, 24 July 2023
  • This vehicle will reportedly be purpose-built to function solely as a self-driving cab.
    Brett Berk, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The platonic ideal of a team is one that is purpose-built for a specific goal; one where each team member can articulate their role in delivering results as clearly as the CEO.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • As in the watches mentioned above, the movement for the Voyager Skeleton is purpose-built, developed exclusively for this watch, with technology firmly in the service of design.
    Carol Besler, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Whereas the old avionics had to be purpose-built for individual aircraft models, and unique to each series, the fresh Rockwell product was much more adaptable to different airplane types.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 31 July 2024
  • These ships were purpose-built for the Mississippi: With 91 staterooms in six categories, all have private balconies that offer unobstructed river views.
    Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Companies should favor solutions purpose-built for their specific use cases rather than defaulting to the latest viral sensation.
    Sylvain Duranton, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Garments independently purpose-built for each of these users would probably diverge mightily from each other; a 21-year-old elite athlete has different physical needs than a middle-aged insurance adjuster at a sports bar.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2024
  • From its inception, the Wagner Group was purpose-built to defy definition and confound Western intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
    Time, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Prosecutors described the rural property as a compound that was heavily fortified, purpose-built, and militarized.
    USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
  • While certainly street legal, Ford’s second iteration of its GT supercar is an unapologetically brutal and purpose-built machine.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The big winner recently: vertical robotics that are purpose-built for specific industries such as warehousing, shipping, health, defense, manufacturing, and construction.
    John Koetsier, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023

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