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How to use purports in a sentence

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The writer is pitifully ignorant of the history of the field about which he purports to correct his elders and betters.
Coming to Toronto from off-Broadway, The Confessions of Punch and Judy purports to be an updating of the infamous English puppet plays.
When a customer hypothecates goods to his bank, he purports to create a security, which constitutes neither a legal mortgage nor a pledge.
Revealingly, Halberstam's book illustrates several of the shortcomings it purports to dissect.
Note that this is a theory which purports to explain the opinions of people, not government.
The site purports to be a balanced presentation of information about New Zealand's future energy needs and how we might solve them.
For a man who purports to understand Irish history it is an utterly bizarre and almost derisible statement.
Making a historical drama that purports to be based on truth is a tricky business.
In doing this, the government is conceding victory to the very people whom it purports to be fighting.
The reader who slogs through the article, without assuming that it documents what it purports to, will learn.
Even when it tramples all over other principles that he purports to hold dear.
We are suggesting that nationalist xenophobia is precisely a function of that which purports to bring us all together.
These oversights are rather limiting for a text that purports to serve as a sourcebook.
But then, the intelligence quotient purports to measure the ratio of cognitive age to chronological age.
By design, neither set of rules purports to override existing international water agreements.
This would be an easy and lucrative way to take but, somehow, if one purports to be a local supplier, then a local supplier you have to be.
The so-called nuclear option purports to be directed solely at the Senate's advice and consent prerogatives regarding federal judges.
It purports to be a tale about a man who inveigles himself into a false identity, but this aspect of the plot never emerges clearly.
His anatomy of the human condition, however, is not the political and moral cul-de-sac it purports to be.
The people and the communities that local government purports to serve will be the real losers if this fails to happen.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It purports to be an Upanishad of the Atharva Veda and can hardly be described as other than a forgery.
That purports to be an aerial photograph taken of the vicinity of General Walker's residence.
The curia is both perpetrator and victim in an institutional system that contravenes the gospel of Christ that it purports to serve.
I am saddened that a company that purports to embrace diversity is pandering to the mindless homophobia of a s mall-minded minority.
The second paragraph of that article purports to restate a Metropolitan Life procedure disallowing unmarried people from sharing a renters policy.
There is one in particular lately adopted in one of the States of the Union, which purports to have been dictated by the most merciful considerations.
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