Sentence examples for my purported from inspiring English sources

"In the early days I would occasionally receive a letter decrying my purported decimation, as the director of the NMAI, of the native collection over which I presided," he said.

The document confirmed that while the FBI was investigating assassination attempts on his life and the nine bombings of his magazine, they were also gathering information on the purported victim, my father.

He purported not to comprehend my misgivings.

These calls all went out sometime between 10 45 pm and midnight and purported to be from my campaign.

Ingesting the National Enquirer account of Edwards' purported Beverly Hills Hotel visit to the purported mother of his purported love child turned out to be as shocking to my system as the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!

In one of my own cases, for example, the government wanted to call a purported expert to explain how the presence of algae downstream from my client's business operations proved that my client was polluting the water.

My last foray into face-matching involved an app called Fetch, which purported to tell users which breed of dog they most resembled; many of my Asian friends and I were told we looked like Shih Tzus.

My local bagel store, for example, sells what is purported to be a low-carb bagel -- six ounces (about 540 calories) of what is basically white wheat dough for twice the price of an ordinary bagel.

In my earlier piece, I explained that the Vergara court had purported to apply a rule arising out of a case called Thomas K. Butt v. State of California.

In my novel Ulverton, set in a village over 300 years, I used strict imitations of period language to find my way into the folds of each century, while Hodd, set in the 13th century, purported to be a translation of a Latin manuscript.

I wrote in my book that emissaries purporting to be from the Obama camp had offered my chief of staff that they were going to raise a whole bunch of money for me around the country if I appointed a candidate that they were interested in.