He shuffled his feet purposelessly, wanting it to come back.

I returned to the car and began driving around purposelessly, with no more idea of what to do than a year-old baby.

From a distance, it can seem as if they are almost purposelessly milling about him, although, of course, the reverse is true.

Just like human beings, the way they can move so purposelessly along without the slightest notion of a destination.

Margaret silenced herself abruptly, and let her mind wander purposelessly.

As we now know, McCarthy was not terrorizing people purposelessly.

But, for the most part, the bulk of the crowds wandered aimlessly, purposelessly around.

Its legs struck out purposelessly, in horrible gestures of delirious suffering.

It seemed to be wandering purposelessly, but was actually seeking carrion to take back to its fellows.

The fog rising from the melting snow drifted purposelessly around the feet of the streetlights.

For the first few strokes they seemed somehow snagged, water splashing purposelessly as the boat rocked.

It did not seem right, Martell thought, to die purposelessly in this way before he had even begun his work here.

The children were excited and overstimulated by the weather and ran purposelessly all over the playground.

Men and women were running back and forth, frantically, purposelessly, useless possessions clutched in their arms.

"Because the Good Magician never does anything purposelessly.

The mob bawled like cows in a panic, flailed wildly, purposelessly.

His legs felt weak and he couldn't stop his mind wandering purposelessly into vagaries about the past.

The precision that farce demands is not seen, only people bumping into people (yes, on purpose yet purposelessly).

I have had the same wishes, and still the days have gone purposelessly by, and the quiet for which I long seems very far away.

Steel-pipe moorings jut purposelessly out of the sea, the gambling boat they once held nowhere to be seen.

Slowly, purposelessly, he strolled toward the slidewaik and let it take him back to the Vorster hall.

The lunger had gathered up the cards and was shuffling them over and over, purposelessly.

They began running around madly, purposelessly, sometimes bumping into each other or into trees or the log houses.

She found herself wondering, purposelessly enough, what color the turban was and how much of her hair had been shaved off in the course of surgery.

God did not give this power purposelessly; as he gave the power, so did he give the reality.