How to Use by design in a Sentence

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• Their only weak spot is guarding tight ends, and that is mostly by design.
  — Matt Modi, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
• Money is part of The Offseason, and that’s by design, said Purce.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2024
• Some of it was by design and some of it just kind of happened.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2023
• In fact, HLAs are the most variable part of the human genome — which is by design.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 19 July 2023
• The restaurant’s ambience is a far-cry from the back of the food truck — by design.
  — Philip Freeman, Charlotte Observer, 7 May 2024
• But the visuals are still hard to miss, and that’s by design.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2024
• This new spinoff is more of the same, and that is entirely by design.
  — Calum Marsh, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Respect must be paid to the writers, who have that all in mind by design.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 13 May 2023
• Also note that by design, this TV stand cannot sit on the floor and must be mounted on the wall.
  — Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2023
• Her version of Tinker Bell, by design, doesn’t talk much in the film.
  — Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2023
• But some of that is by design: This is a film with questions, not answers.
  — Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 28 June 2024
• That is a city that starts out by design to exclude poverty.
  — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• The Inspire 3 is pretty bare-bones, but that’s by design.
  — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 10 June 2023
• For the most part, the game flow — either by design or sheer luck — worked out really well.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 May 2023
• If this looked like a college passing game at times, that's by design.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Sep. 2023
• From time to time, by design, their paths would cross, their whispers hot against the fabric of their uniforms.
  — Keren Blankfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• Hint: $9,000+) The price of tickets has surged far beyond inflation over the past few decades, and much of it has been by design.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
• And at this point, West Virginia looks — by design — like a year-to-year proposition.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
• The songs were catchy by design, even if the lyrics were irrelevant to the artist or, in some cases, nonsense.
  — Chris Stover, CBS News, 13 Nov. 2023
• Kline’s performance is, by design, the biggest and boldest, and tremendous fun much of the time.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2024
• Not its customers, aka airlines — and that’s by design.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 19 June 2024
• The blurring between Sandy Liang, the brand, and Sandy Liang, the person, is partially by design.
  — Jessica Testa, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• This is by design, so the viewers can learn about the businesses along with the Sharks throughout each segment.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2023
• Across the district, the ultra small class size was not entirely by design.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• My absence from many of my photographs was, in part, by design.
  — Jason Parham, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• That Butler was selected for the fifth and final match was by design.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2024
• Most importantly, the wide bowl of the flute leads into a tapered rim by design.
  — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Jan. 2023
• If the grocery angle seems like a surprising choice, that was by design.
  — Adriana Lee, WWD, 4 Nov. 2024
• The Walking Dead: World Beyond only has two seasons, and that's by design.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024
• Motorists would whiz past, and sometimes the bridge, by design, would ever so slightly sway.
  — William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024