Sentence examples for a purportedly from inspiring English sources

"It's a purportedly obsolete and vulgar art form.

One is fairly soft import growth for such a purportedly robust recovery.

Pope Francis famously said: "Who am I to judge?" in referring to a purportedly gay priest.

For a purportedly peaceful animal, a bonobo can be surprisingly intemperate.

And he has stacked a purportedly independent truth and justice commission with government patsies.Nor have the armed groups helped.

Choose a dial with wide open spaces between 2 and 4. Prefer a purportedly longer happy hour?

So the 2013 Avalon finds itself the unlikely avatar of a purportedly new — more adventurous and design-driven — Toyota.

Why not interview members of the local orchestra and find out how real people make careers in a purportedly comatose industry?

If so, Hitchens has been duped into slamming a purportedly "tone deaf" and "propagandistic" book that might actually turn out to be a surprisingly sly defense of liberalism.

"A purportedly scholarly book or article that asserted its claims without further qualification," he wrote, "would attract derision as one-sided if not misleading".

Viewed in this light, the question of who belongs at Stuyvesant High School cannot be resolved by Mr Bloomberg's deference to a purportedly objective test.