How to Use purview in a Sentence

purview

noun
  • The case is within the court's purview.
  • The moral dilemmas of the early settlers are beyond the purview of this book.
  • That question is outside my purview.
  • The show wasn’t without flaws — some of which stretched beyond the singer’s purview.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • The rest of the food is under the palate purview of Jean-Georges Vongerichten.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Others fall within the purview of the Fast Food Council.
    Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The applications would fall under the purview of the director of the Ohio EPA.
    Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2023
  • While many argued that the issue fell outside of the council’s purview.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Donley’s purview skews toward the macros — the trunks, the trucks, the carriage of cargo across a network of crews and depots.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • So this is an issue that may fall under a finance chief’s purview.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2023
  • In the spirits world, the concept of rarity is one that has not been solely within the purview whiskey for some time now.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The move to unload so many shows at Showtime comes as the premium cabler is set to move under the purview of Paramount+.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 10 Feb. 2023
  • As for praying for rain, sometimes that’s not just the purview of clerics and faith traditions.
    Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
  • All of it happens beyond the purview of the state, which doesn’t have the authority to track how much water each well is pumping.
    Ella Nilsen, CNN, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The problem is that in both cases the Fed and the teachers always give themselves high grades while those under their purview struggle.
    WSJ, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Once the sole purview of dive bars and college parties, shots have had something of renaissance in recent years.
    Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The central bank says that Nigerians hold a large stash of cash that is outside the purview of regulators.
    Ope Adetayo, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The tobacco industry is unlike any other in the FDA's purview, Sward said.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The power to enforce this strategy and the others laid out in the industry rests in the purview and power of asset owners.
    Bhakti Mirchandani, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Included in this purview: whether a CS student really needs to learn French.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
  • For more than 100 years beauty pageants have largely been the purview of women emerging teeth first from a cloud of Aqua Net to compete for rhinestone tiaras.
    Michael Callahan, Town & Country, 29 Apr. 2023
  • This question was at the periphery of the House committee’s purview, and no real effort was made to answer it.
    Joe Klein, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Although Morse remains the purview of hams, its presence still seeps into wider culture.
    Larry Kahaner, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Artists once again serve at the pleasure of officialdom, whose purview—like the surveillance state itself—grows more total by the day.
    Laura Kipnis, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
  • The border guards, also under his purview, were the first to face the giant Russian force crossing into Ukraine early on Feb. 24.
    Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Opening their own Instagram account outside the purview of Spire, the band shared their own statement to address the incident for the first time.
    Vulture, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Tony also added that the decision falls not to him, but under the purview of the two fire marshals where the jails are located — in Pompano Beach and Fort Lauderdale.
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 17 Dec. 2022
  • For decades, space had been considered the purview of only a handful of government agencies.
    Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Sometimes, aquatic insects come under the purview of state wildlife agencies.
    New York Times, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Yet both within Meta and on the board, people seem intoxicated by the idea of extended purview.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 8 Nov. 2022

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