Sentence examples for purportedly but from inspiring English sources

The centrepiece of the old approach was a "cap-and-trade" scheme, festooned with offsets and bribes – bribes that purportedly, but hardly, reduced carbon emissions.

The ethos of Jamahiriya was purportedly feminist, but Qaddafi had peculiar attitudes toward women.

Perhaps Adam Sandler fans were like Donald Trump supporters, purportedly numerous but hard to find in real life.

Healthcare in North Korea is purportedly free, but has deteriorated at a rapid pace since the mid 1990s.

One point advanced in favour of intelligent design the "irreducible complexity" of some living things was purportedly scientific, but it was not well-founded, the judge ruled.

A BBC-style announcer describes what you are purportedly hearing but even she can make no sense of it and the perplexity is redoubled in the installation itself.

As a man (purportedly successful, but decidedly single) actually hoping to meet a powerful, successful woman interested in me, I only hope that those women looking for love do not forgo their dreams, interests and desires in the hopes of finding their "man".

TellMe is basically everything the rumored Assistant will purportedly do, but the Microsoft's version exists without the fanfare of its Apple counterpart.

The Sacristy used to house Juan Diego's cloak, upon which the Virgin's image purportedly appears, but after massive flooding in 1629, it was removed from the Sacristy to better protect it.

There was a fashion for African arts in Paris at the time, and Poulenc was delighted to run across some published verses purportedly Liberian, but full of Parisian boulevard slang.

According to one of the government's complaints against him, Peterson "defrauded investors by issuing false filings and press releases touting its purportedly lucrative — but wholly fictitious — business deals".