purport
Example Sentences
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The purported weapons used in some of the cases have only fueled skepticism: A District of Columbia man was charged for throwing a Subway sandwich.
From Los Angeles Times
The movie purports to dip into the deep well of Shakespearean magnificence but emerges only with a ladle full of greasy schmaltz.
Pictures purporting to show him with such a weapon actually show him carrying a "camera tripod", he said.
From BBC
He wrote what he thought “each speaker is most likely to have needed to say” within “the overall purport of the speech as actually delivered.”
When England toured Australia later that year, captain Ivo Bligh was given a small terracotta urn purported to contain the ashes of a burnt wooden bail.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
