How to Use purvey in a Sentence

purvey

verb

• The name of the company gives you a sense of the halfhearted satire Mr. Rabe is purveying.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
• After the wall fell in 1989, most of them stayed and many began new careers purveying the foods of their homelands.
  — Michelle Hackman and Georgia Wells, WSJ, 28 June 2019
• With a smaller staff, the paper will purvey fewer words.
  — Frank Baker, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 Sep. 2017
• There seems to be no shame among those who continue to purvey the election lie -- even at the risk of court punishment.
  — Marnie Hunter, CNN, 9 Aug. 2021
• The fact is, the antidote to the depressing true stories purveyed by the news is the joyful abundance of thriving nature all around us.
  — Bruce Beehler, The Denver Post, 23 Aug. 2019
• In a nod to the fishmonger days, seafood will be purveyed, along with meats, cheese and produce, on the first two floors, which will be connected by an escalator.
  — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
• In the first movement, the piano purveyed rippling arpeggios, a Glassian trademark, while the strings worked through melodic figures.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2018
• China’s current crop of vaccines are far less effective than those in the West, but soon Beijing might be able to purvey Pfizer knock-offs.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 May 2021
• But those novels did not purvey, and in some sense could have no space for, intellectual discourse.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
• Jay-Z had a vodka, Drew Barrymore sold wines, and Ludacris purveyed cognac.
  — John Kell, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2019
• Butler was so right about Miami (and this column was wrong); there’s a special culture in play, and this roster purveys the evidence.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 28 Dec. 2019
• The site is composed of a group of tech-savvy volunteers seeking to expose lies and targeting the extremist community of people who purvey the idea that Sandy Hook was a hoax .
  — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 28 June 2019
• After all, squirrels can't use direct-mailing lists to keep track of the nuts that sustain them the way that, say, vein-popping conspiracy-purveying radio hosts can.
  — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017
• Both Otterbox and Lifeproof purvey a plethora of accessories, too.
  — Benjamin Levin, CNN Underscored, 7 July 2020
• The journalists who questioned him were denounced for purveying false news, though Israel Hayom, the biggest freesheet, is so loyal that Israelis call it bibiton (iton is Hebrew for newspaper).
  — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
• Philadelphia butcher shop Primal Supply Meats purveys primal, subprimal and custom cuts to some of the city’s best restaurants...
  — Kathleen Squires, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2020
• And so what this may open up is additional litigation about exactly what those businesses are that are purveying something that involves speech.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 July 2023
• When Trump announced his new policy last month, several dissenters lamented his betrayal of people who love America; Kurds are often eager to purvey this myth, too.
  — Ramzy Mardini and Morgan L. Kaplan, Twin Cities, 4 Nov. 2019
• Public discourse becomes increasingly preoccupied with the scandalous, the sensational, and the confessional as purveyed by tabloids, talk shows, and eventually the mainstream media as well.
  — Fred Bauer, National Review, 20 Oct. 2017
• In addition to gaming and information-purveying app use cases (as mentioned above), the iPhone X's powerful sensors allows for additional features.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2017
• These are the places that are forever perceived, for good reason, as purveying direct violence, whether rhetorical, political or physical, against the African-American community.
  — Jason Johnson, The Root, 22 May 2017
• These platforms work overtime to hijack our attention by purveying information that arouses curiosity, outrage, or anger.
  — Anastasia Kozyreva, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2023
• The corporations purveying these services are thriving in a context of obscurity and regulatory neglect.
  — WIRED, 22 June 2023

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024