Sentence examples for purportedly happy from inspiring English sources

Fifty years after Betty Friedan's groundbreaking The Feminine Mystique had lifted a mirror up to the purportedly happy little US homemaker and seen only desperation; 60 years after Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex had come out in English and analysed women as secondary to those male masters who defined and described the universe – our times were still embroiled in misogyny.

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

But small businesses, of the kind the government was purportedly considering, are not happy.

Purportedly there are even foods to make you happier.

I turn round to see my elder daughter examining from all angles her free Happy Disney gift, a fairy princess which purportedly doubles as a spinning top, while unconsciously feeding chips into her mouth.

For all you text-happy teens out there, this one's for you: A screenshot purportedly from an internal Verizon report states that the new Microsoft Kin social media phones will be up for pre-order on May 6th for a May 13th release.

Benjamin Franklin purportedly proclaimed that "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy".

The tabloid media have covered the story extensively, happy to be able to put "Jennifer Lawrence" and "naked photos" in the headline for a purportedly legitimate news story.

"Look," Mr Rourke purportedly wrote.

Now, the problem had purportedly been solved.

Other purportedly green rankings seem equally backward.