How to Use purportedly in a Sentence

purportedly

adverb

• The post shows a step-by-step process for how canola oil is purportedly made.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2022
• Uber was breached to its core, purportedly by an 18-year-old.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2022
• Fans who cannot make Sept. 9 are gonna have to eat the cost of their tickets, this for a band that is purportedly earning $1.5M-$3M per night.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2023
• The video then purportedly shows Anthony letting go of Brown, who picks up the bag and heads for the exit.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 26 May 2023
• Cerf purportedly locked himself in the car when the men approached.
  — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 20 June 2024
• The compact gadget warms from the top, which ensures that each new wipe is warm and also purportedly doesn’t dry out the wipes.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 4 Aug. 2023
• That’s when Meyer chose not to fly home with his young team and purportedly stayed back in Ohio to, ahem, visit his grandkids.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Dec. 2021
• As noted above, the video purportedly shows off a purple iPhone 14 Pro.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 25 Aug. 2022
• The truck purportedly showed the names of students in groups that allegedly signed on to the pro-Palestinian letter.
  — Selina Wang, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2023
• As part of the scheme, the tax returns falsely claimed that IRS and the state tax agencies had withheld large amounts of income tax from the trusts that purportedly filed the returns.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 24 Feb. 2023
• The latter Tom purportedly sends it to all his friends during the holidays.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 27 Jan. 2023
• These books that were purportedly trying to be helpful offered a lot of advice, a lot of rules, and a lot of judgment.
  — Hannah Howard, Bon Appétit, 17 Feb. 2022
• The custom began at the turn of the 20th century and was purportedly thought up by grape producers in the southern part of the country with a bumper crop.
  — Amanda Kludt, CNN, 25 Dec. 2021
• But when their partners start asking questions about the trio’s trip to visit a purportedly sick Stanicky the ruse appears to be up.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2024
• OnePlus’ second-gen watch will purportedly get up to 100 hours on a single charge.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 26 Feb. 2024
• The budget the group’s board of directors approved the day before the call features drastic cuts that would purportedly shrink that deficit to just $2.3 million.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 17 May 2023
• The blog post appears to be no longer online, but Urlacher’s lawyers shared images purportedly showing the post in court filings.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2023
• But the teaching of Black history is now imperiled in nearly half of the dozen states that purportedly require it, King said.
  — Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
• Made just as home video was taking off, Faces had the conceit of a pathologist exploring gruesome ways to die via footage purportedly culled from around the world.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2023
• The email Fox News obtained was purportedly directed at students in the middle school (6-8th grade).
  — Sam Dorman, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2022
• One video shows a long-range sniper rifle with a night-vision scope, purportedly being used to pick off Pakistani soldiers.
  — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2022
• He was acquitted in that case after the girl who purportedly appeared in the tape refused to testify at the trial.
  — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2022
• Someone on Twitter shared a graphic video that purportedly shows the rapper on the ground following the shooting.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2022
• Three men were shot Tuesday in Atlanta near the set of a music video purportedly being filmed by rapper Lil Baby.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• The fake auction website Bulli Bai, which takes its name from a slur against Muslim women, was filled with profiles of dozens who were purportedly for sale.
  — Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2022
• Take the makeup pouch purportedly offered by Chanel Beauty as a thank you to certain customers that was pictured on one of the brand’s makeup counters.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2024
• Dealing with the rise and grind of it all has fueled a number of workplace trends, with Gen Z purportedly at the helm, from the anti-work movement and lying flat to quiet quitting.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023
• The pair are enacting a drama that is also purportedly the real, present-tense story of their lives.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2022
• Police released video purportedly of Thomas Phillips shopping at a hardware store in August, 2023.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
• The petition includes a letter Erik purportedly wrote in 1988 to his cousin, Andy Cano, that discusses Jose’s ongoing molestation of his youngest son.
  — Emily Palmer, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024