How to Use by design in a Sentence

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  • Again, this is a historical or period show, which is by design.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Because the normal part of that score is Jod’s theme, but those two pieces of music are kind of related and can work together, kind of by design.
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The Forest Service says the connection people foster with their woodlands along the way is all by design.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 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
  • Money is part of The Offseason, and that’s by design, said Purce.
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Their only weak spot is guarding tight ends, and that is mostly by design.
    — Matt Modi, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • 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

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