How to Use purport in a Sentence

purport

verb

• Swindlers send emails and texts that purport to come from the customer’s bank.
  — David Benoit, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
• The kind of stories that should be avoided at all costs are the ones that purport to look too far into the future.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 14 Nov. 2022
• This bot purported to be a parent who plays against his kids.
  — Reid Forgrave, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• While many purport to speak for the global South—at the UN or otherwise—no single country can claim the mantle.
  — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2024
• Most purported to be biographies of famous figures, and all were published in the last few months.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
• The balance of the dynamic energy of these three doshas is purported to achieve harmony in the body.
  — Hasina Khatib, Allure, 5 Jan. 2024
• Attached to the tweet was a screenshot purporting to show a dozen tweets from Cruz posted after mass shootings.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 8 May 2023
• But in some corners of the internet this week, fans shared photos of a billboard purported to be on one of the roads leading to the fest taking place this week and next.
  — Lawrence Specker | , al, 15 Apr. 2023
• Videos that purport to be from the invasion over the weekend, including footage of killed and captured Israelis, are live on the channel.
  — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
• One of the core features is the My Vitality Score, which purports to show your mental and physical readiness for the day.
  — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2024
• The push has the potential to bring once-fringe treatments purported to fight aging further into the mainstream.
  — Alex Janin, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2023
• LeClaire is not the first person to purport an Indigenous identity for self-gain, Hoffman said.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2023
• That’s a false dilemma, created by the very institution that purports to solve it.
  — Allyson McCabe, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2023
• And the next player in the scam is somebody purporting to be from a financial institution.
  — Robert Legare, Jeff Pegues, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2023
• But certainly a lot of people have had luck with websites like GoodRx that purport to offer discounts.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
• Piro was under tremendous pressure to find out from Saddam the truth about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and purported ties to al Qaeda.
  — Peter Bergen, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023
• The presence of homeless people, purported drug use and other safety concerns are on the minds of those who live in the single-family homes near the river.
  — Trevor Morgan, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
• Those texts, though, purport a lively settlement with thousands of residents, a military fort, and a pier to give Viking ships a place to restock and rest.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
• The stories of Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey purport the narrative that financial success is brewed from youth, brilliance, and a willingness to sleep on the office floor.
  — Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• Our society is willing to recognize that disconnection is killing us while, in the same breath, mocking those who pick up the tools that purport to help.
  — Tabi Jensen, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
• Just Jared posted purported pics from the nuptials, in which Miley wore a light blue one-shoulder dress while carrying a bouquet of baby’s breath.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Aug. 2023
• That's when Russell allegedly turned to her colleagues for help, and one of them put her in touch with an undercover FBI agent purporting to be a hitman.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2024
• The Kane County state’s attorney and the Kane County sheriff are warning residents about a fake website that purports to be the site of the county treasurer.
  — Megan Jones, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
• Besides that, Exipure pills also purport to supercharge your brain health and your overall health.
  — James Robinson, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
• No one is immune to this possible issue, which is why the supplement industry has come out with so many products that purport to help.
  — Mark Jackson, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• Ariely purported to have learned, from a dental-insurance company, that dentists agree on the presence of a cavity only about half the time.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• Reyes said his team had heard of Jordan’s purported early struggles with his swing, and, in the video, set up a column grid to map the building’s structure onto Tiger Woods’ club trajectory.
  — Jack Bantock, CNN, 29 Feb. 2024
• Customers were incensed that their Tesla vehicles were falling well short of the advertised range, sometimes by as much as half the number of miles that they were purported to get on a full charge.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 23 Oct. 2023
• Whether screenwriters find similar success will depend at least in part on if there are inherent limits to the machines that purport to do their jobs.
  — John Koblin, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2023
• On March 22, a mysterious author published what purported to be a tell-all book about McGrath’s time under Hogan.
  — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024