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
  • 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

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