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
  • And by the way, the bankers are all peddling this right now, anyway.
    Eric Johnson, Recode, 23 Aug. 2018
  • The person on the Ring video then ducks away and peddles off.
    Fox News, 2 Mar. 2020
  • At least, those were the dreams that were peddled to the masses just weeks ago.
    Ed Wallace\, star-telegram, 8 June 2018
  • The online Trump Store peddled bars of soap wrapped in a drawing of the White House.
    Zach Everson, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • O’Flaherty’s shows were never about peddling the next big thing out of the M.F.A. machine.
    Jay Bulger, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024
  • None of the small biotech CEOs is peddling pricey drugs — in fact, none of them even has a drug of their own on the market.
    Nicholas Florko, STAT, 12 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Just ignore the vendors peddling cheap knockoffs on the main road, a sign of nascent tourism.
    Zandie Brockett, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Aug. 2018
  • Back in the day, East Germany had its steroid-peddling doctors.
    Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • There was so much optimism to peddle about this Colts team a year ago.
    Derrik Klassen, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
  • But the biggest lie that CAA supporters peddle is that the law won't leave these groups any worse off.
    Shikha Dalmia, TheWeek, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Allow me this time to make a value judgment on the kinds of art being peddled on the blockchain on sites like Opensea.
    Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2024
  • There’s no shortage of movies that gauzily peddle the notion of art as a balm.
    Brent Simon, Variety, 17 Feb. 2023
  • And then there was Solis herself, peddling new ideas for skin care.
    Michelle L. Quinn, Post-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2017
  • There are always more prospects to sell, and hope to peddle to the masses who yearn for another Cup run.
    Mac Engel, star-telegram, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Back in 1969, Sebring was nicknamed The Candyman and was said to have used his salon to peddle drugs to the stars.
    Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 July 2019
  • To be sure, that’s a petty, trifling point of view, but the sports world peddles in that stuff at every level.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 25 Sep. 2019
  • First, not many college jocks are going to be in high demand to peddle stuff.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 24 June 2021
  • The quality of the artists’ work was in synch with their dealers’ eagerness to peddle it.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
  • There’s no excuse for items promoting racist tropes to be peddled to the public nor for the rest of us to condone them.
    Jeffrey L. Seglin, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Or place on your desk and use your arms to peddle for an effective upper body blitz.
    Kathy Barr, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
  • So are Mexican firms which peddle the comforts of home.
    The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • In Malaysia, hawkers peddle chicken satay, which is smoky and slathered in sweet peanut sauce.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2018
  • An ice cream battle is brewing over who will get to peddle treats this year on the beaches of Ventnor.
    Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Dunphy gains super strength from a drug peddled by the Power Broker, but winds up addicted to the same substance.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Penguins general manager Kyle Dubas has a big project on his hands, but Pettersson is his most attractive asset to peddle at this year’s deadline, and Dubas seems motivated to start turning over his roster.
    Chris Johnston, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025

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