purled

past tense of purl

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for purled
Verb
  • Following their breakup, reports swirled that Renner was receiving upwards of $200,000 per month in child support — an astronomical figure that fueled debates across social media and sports media circles alike.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But by 2023, uncertainty swirled about Blackpink’s future.
    Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • An unexpected result in Japan’s leadership contest over the weekend rippled through global financial markets with the dollar surging against the yen on Sunday.
    Danny Bakst, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2025
  • These small shifts rippled into the changes that my clients report as being transformative.
    Sonia Singh, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • My poetry began as a father’s sly growl, became a spectacle on a rickety stage washed in limelight, and now is a 70-year-old woman’s walk back into a thousand yesterdays.
    Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
  • For those in charge of protecting the biosphere, keeping the beaches on the peninsula’s eastern side free of trash washed in from the sea is a constant struggle.
    Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This is theoretically something the sport should have internalized decades ago, starting when the NFL lapped Major League Baseball as America’s most popular league.
    Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • But all were gleefully lapped up by tried-and-true slasher fans and a new wave of bloodthirsty teenage audiences.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With such enviable success, questions have bubbled over the years as to whether the Parasite outfit could be bought by a larger entity or a group of investors.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Lichtenberg thinks the atmosphere most likely bubbled up from the planet’s magma ocean.
    Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Browns tried to move up the field with seven seconds left in the game, but Jamari Thrash failed to get out of bounds on the final play and the clock trickled down to triple zeroes.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • As a result, a lot of interest from her rabid fan base has trickled into the NFL stratosphere, which is something that Jones has noticed.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the 26th minute, Odobert dribbled across from the left and linked up nicely with them until Porro’s simple pass for Bergvall went out for a throw-in.
    Jay Harris, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The pass was a perfect one-timed through ball for Chawinga, who dribbled through five defenders and snuck a shot past Naeher.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2025
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“Purled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purled. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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