For them, this party's only apparent purpose was to have fun.

Something that lay beneath the surface; a situation away from crime's apparent purpose.

The essence of the law, he said, was being found on the street with no apparent purpose.

He wondered why this chance visitor had stopped with no apparent purpose.

Everywhere he looked he saw something which seemed to no apparent purpose.

But for all apparent purposes the war on this front is over.

Others were milling around on the grass to no apparent purpose.

Ambulatory residents move across the floor with no apparent purpose.

The apparent purpose is to thwart foreign military and intelligence operations, he said.

He moved about the room with no apparent purpose, sometimes out of view.