Sentence examples for purported to explain from inspiring English sources

After all, he purported to explain to me Lisp, and he wrote me a Lisp program on the blackboard.

Or maybe globalists and nationalists – a split purported to explain Putin, Brexit and the rise of Trump?

In the western British Isles during the Middle Ages a prevalent myth involving barnacles purported to explain the annual appearance of certain geese in the fall.

"Well on the way to being a point of reference for a motley crew of creationists, anti-reductionists, neo-Lamarckians and the rest", the book purported to explain how living things were shaped by "morphogenetic fields".

The play was presented as a documentary by the great James Cameron, and it purported to explain that the Burgess/Maclean cover-up was masterminded by a spy who came ashore at Blacktoft in 1955.

I've often had the experience of reading a science article that purported to explain some question I'd always wondered about, only to find myself getting distracted as soon as I started reading the explanation.

On the epigraph page, and again on the closing one, Mamet purports to explain the title of his book.

The book purports to explain how the feast of Purim came to be celebrated by the Jews.

We describe how transport studies and political geography offer two related, but poorly connected, theoretical approaches purporting to explain the relationship between transport and the economy.

Judging from the plethora of theories purporting to explain the utterly unanticipated victory of David Cameron's Tories in the British general election, the result was wildly overdetermined.

Calling themselves the Movement of Free Algerian Officers, they post on their site accounts purporting to explain many of the unsolved mysteries.