How to Use peddle in a Sentence

peddle

verb
  • They peddled fruits and vegetables out of their truck on the side of the road.
  • The mayor's aides tried to peddle his innocence to reporters.
  • He peddled his idea for a new movie to every executive in Hollywood.
  • Hopes to peddle his daubings to the tourists of course.
    New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • At some point another man walked to the car and tried to steal the items the first man was trying to peddle.
    Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2022
  • There’s no shortage of movies that gauzily peddle the notion of art as a balm.
    Brent Simon, Variety, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Or place on your desk and use your arms to peddle for an effective upper body blitz.
    Kathy Barr, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Some people sell alcohol from the trunks of their cars, while others peddle joints outside the clubs.
    John Eligon, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The idea was that the existence of an FBI investigation could then be used to peddle the same claims to the press and electorate.
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 3 May 2022
  • All of which converge to result in the hate and vitriol that is peddled against women on the internet.
    From Cnn Opinion and As Equals, CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Did Adam Neumann peddle his wares around town like a sad salesman, all barefoot?
    Daniel Scheffler, SPIN, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Amazon peddles thousands of products that promise to tone and snatch.
    Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Fox also attempted to shift the blame to Trump for peddling lies about Smartmatic.
    Marshall Cohen, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
  • But rather than thrills, this art carnival peddles whimsy and joy.
    Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Shame on them and shame of the student who actually believe the tripe being peddled.
    Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Start with a walk or peddle over the Big Dam Bridge, the continent's longest pedestrian and cycling bridge.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The fingers could be said to resemble peddling cameras.
    Jay Pilgreen, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
  • And scammers try to take advantage of the rules to try and peddle worthless products via links on useless websites.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
  • There should be another six weeks of baseball to watch before deciding whether the Rangers need to peddle Perez on the open market.
    Dallas News, 5 June 2022
  • These are straight up false representations that are being peddled in the last few days to affect the votes in an election.
    Daniel Bice, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2024
  • And that’s just a taste of all the hyperbole or downright lies Adams has peddled—often for no apparent reason.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 6 July 2023
  • The dumbed-down trope about race and class in America that Hollywood has always peddled.
    Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Morales said in Mexico there are also people who peddle false medical cures on the street.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Ski huts ranging from rustic to trendy are all keen to peddle local produce and specialties.
    Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 14 Feb. 2022
  • This EzyRoller Mini puts a novel spin on the ride-on toy concept by letting kids hover just above the ground and peddle forward—hands-free—with a footbar.
    Lauren Gray, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Retailers are spending millions a year to thwart organized crime rings that steal from their stores in bulk and then peddle the goods online.
    Sharon Terlep, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Stow Lake Boathouse rents rowboats and peddle boats ideal for cruising by the lake's stone bridge, waterfall, and Chinese pavilion.
    Mimi Slawoff, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The wave of anti-feminism in South Korea shares many of the incendiary taglines with right-wing populist movements in the West that peddle such messages.
    New York Times, 1 Jan. 2022
  • But over the years as trading in hacked databases became big business, RaidForums emerged as the go-to place for English-speaking hackers to peddle their wares.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2022
  • None disputed the key allegation: that Trump knew the 2020 election wasn’t stolen but persisted in peddling that lie.
    Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2023

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