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
• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• These were deals in which Goldman used its balance sheet to purchase chunks of stock to profitably peddle off to clients.
  — Hugh Son, Bloomberg.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Postcards showing a trench filled with hundreds of Moro bodies were peddled as souvenirs on the streets of Jolo.
  — Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
• This is mainly the case because what's being peddled by these champions of freedom is spin, self-serving falsity, and whole-cloth fabrications.
  — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 21 Feb 2025