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Example sentences for "purporting"

Lexicographically close words:
purply; purpois; purport; purported; purportedly; purports; purpos; purpose; purposed; purposeful
  1. Salesmen of this company have not been exhibiting a “letter purporting to show that this department has endorsed their products in the treatment of venereal diseases,” as stated by Dr.

  2. Chicago save one, and all purporting to show most favorable results from No.

  3. A protest against this particular falsehood resulted in another card being sent out several months later by the Pineoleum people purporting to explain and apologize for the misquotations and putting the blame on the printer.

  4. Oils purporting to be Russian, most of which are imperfectly purified and many of which are positively dangerous for continued use.

  5. Undaunted by this exposure of their methods, the Breitenbach Company later sent out a statement of results purporting to have been obtained by one Mateo M.

  6. My attention has been called to the fact that salesmen of this company have been exhibiting a letter purporting to show that this department has endorsed their products in the treatment of venereal diseases.

  7. Though purporting to come from Toronto, where the $25.

  8. Koch purporting to explain the symptoms and offering suggestions regarding treatment.

  9. So strange That I must hope, indeed, your messenger Has mingled his own fancies with the words Purporting to be yours.

  10. Twenty years later he wrote a prose apologia for Shelley in the form of an introduction to a collection of letters purporting to come from Shelley, but which were discovered to be spurious immediately upon publication.

  11. Another form of it, purporting to be a later work, is the large folding Plan of the City of New York and its environs, .

  12. Greely) of the siege, purporting to be that of one Dorothy Dudley.

  13. German of the lament of a victim, dated 1720, without place, and purporting to be printed from a Dutch copy (cf.

  14. This head is taken from a German print, engraved at Augsburg, purporting to follow an original issued in London.

  15. It also contains the usual portrait of Bienville, purporting to be engraved from a copy belonging to J.

  16. One of these was filled up with an order (purporting to come from Lexington to the officer in command at Mt.

  17. Little more than an hour ago two well-mounted horsemen arrived at the Porta Romana, and presented a safe-conduct purporting to be for Galeazzo Visconti and his esquire.

  18. It consisted of some four-score poems, signed with all manner of intentionally misleading symbols and purporting to emanate from Tobolsko, in Siberia.

  19. Take up any document, purporting to give an account of this country, and you will find it to be composed, either of absurd and nauseous exaggerations on the one hand, or of gross and calumnious detractions on the other.

  20. The deed purporting to have been executed three years ago has only been executed a few days, or a few months at the outside," Fleming said.

  21. For the present, you are charged with forgery and uttering a certain document, purporting to be an assignment of mining interests in Burmah from Sir Charles Darryll to yourself.

  22. About two years later he was considerably annoyed by the appearance of a pamphlet purporting to give "An Account of the Origin of the Pickwick Papers," the author of which was the "widow of the distinguished artist who originated the work.

  23. A copy of such register for the time being, purporting to be so printed and published, shall be prima facie evidence that the persons therein specified are registered according to the provisions of this act; and, subject to sub.

  24. The register is called “The Manitoba Medical Register;” a copy thereof for the time being purporting to be so printed and published is prima facie evidence that the persons specified are registered (ib.

  25. A copy of such register, for the time being, purporting to be so printed and published, is prima facie evidence that the persons specified are registered.

  26. Such register is called “The Medical Register,” and a copy thereof for the time being, purporting to be so printed and published, is prima facie evidence that the persons specified are registered according to this chapter.

  27. He says that bills for over forty thousand pounds, purporting to be signed by Donald Lindsay, have been discounted by Trevor, who asserted that he had them from me.

  28. A bottle purporting to contain Peter Piper's Popular Pills; the man seems to have had them on the brain.

  29. Fothud pronounced that the clergy should be exempted, and three verses purporting to be his decision are still extant.

  30. First, making a statement of facts purporting to be serious.

  31. This was the celebrated introductory essay to a volume purporting to consist of letters from Shelley.

  32. Sciarra having heard that the great poet was detained by fear of him, sent a message purporting that, instead of injury, Tasso should receive every protection at his hands.

  33. But we were all aware that Professor Richet had received various communications purporting to emanate from these two ancestors of his.

  34. The communicating intelligence, purporting to be Antoine B.

  35. Some draw maps, purporting to come from a deceased schoolmate.

  36. A volume containing these writings was soon after published, constituting, in the whole, fifteen books, purporting to have been written at different times, and by the different authors whose names they respectively bear.

  37. The Executive has laid the paper purporting to be the Constitution of California before you, and asks you to admit her into the Union as a State; and the question is, will you or will you not admit her?

  38. Soon after a proclamation was issued by General Valencia, purporting that if the president did not yield, he would bombard the palace; and that if the powder which is kept there were to blow up, it would ruin half the city.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purporting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.