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How to use purporting in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word purporting? Here are some examples.

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As with any complex disorder, the therapies purporting to help are legion, and variable in outcome as far as the individual is concerned.
However, we were met with a raucous noise purporting to be music, and fairground stalls.
Campbell was also ruled to have distributed paperwork purporting to be internal party documents.
The institution of marriage they are purporting to protect is an abstraction.
A person purporting to be a doctor may carry more credible messages about a new toothpaste than a television presenter, for example.
The person purporting to exercise his discretion has acted in abuse or excess of his power.
It may be, however, that the person purporting to grant the lease proves to have a defective title himself.
In the following four months he still sent out paternity test results purporting to be from the Canadian company.
The mayor warned people to beware of bogus charities purporting to be collecting money for victims' families.
Physics professors receive packages purporting to show how to build perpetual motion machines.
In vibrant, unpunctuated prose purporting to be Ned's own words, Carey explores Australia's most enduring myth.
In the programme, former jockey Osborne was approached by people purporting to be considering buying a horse from him.
And now, in far away Chelmsford, were artefacts purporting an association with the 12th century architect of Orkney's magnificent mother church.
Tunisia had promulgated a constitution in 1860, setting up a Supreme Council purporting to limit the powers of the monarchy.
A text purporting to describe a battle may have been composed to glorify the victor or excuse the loser.
I am looking at a statute of a foreign Parliament purporting to intermeddle in our constitutional affairs.
Unlike the USAir website, there is not need to affirmatively indicate your assent before purporting to enter into a binding agreement.
Reenactment is often avowedly apolitical, purporting not to take a stance vis-a-vis the past.
Any transaction purporting to withdraw, surrender or commute the monies will be void.
We like nothing more than seeing the confused expression on tourists' faces when we offer them two national flags, each purporting to represent Scotland.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The treaty has failed to lay the axe to the roots of war, has perhaps increased their number while purporting to destroy them.
A paper, purporting to be a letter of marque, signed by Jefferson Davis, was found on the Savannah.
It is in a small, cramped hand, and you know the one purporting to be from him later was in a big, sprawly hand.
The Plaza was not a hotel, and a picture caption of Tynemouth Sands purporting to be in 1990 features bathing machines from 100 years ago.
She gave messages to Mr. Crane, purporting to be from his dead son.
After this, writing, purporting to be from Mr. Smith, came frequently.
Some draw maps, purporting to come from a deceased schoolmate.
Last fall came this letter, purporting to be from my father.
In this book is an outline purporting to be a Picture of a Physeter or Spermaceti whale, drawn by scale from one killed on the coast of Mexico, August, and hoisted on deck.
Proponents of the critique have offered various types of empirical evidence purporting to support their point of view and the ineffectualness of zoning.
Now, by all odds, the most ancient extant portrait anyways purporting to be the whale's, is to be found in the famous cavern-pagoda of Elephanta, in India.
The Provost-Marshal, who is a friend of mine, told me that there was a special warning out against a person purporting to be an American chaplain who had escaped from Belgium.
But quitting all these unprofessional attempts, let us glance at those pictures of leviathan purporting to be sober, scientific delineations, by those who know.
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