purporting
Example Sentences
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Purporting to be based in San Francisco, its profile picture shows a blond woman wearing a fur hat with a hammer and sickle badge.
From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2023
Purporting to be footage shot by a bar mitzvah videographer, “Donny’s Bar Mitzvah” is a found-footage comedy revolving around the attendees and antics at a 1998 Jewish initiation ceremony.
From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2021
Purporting to be a lost manuscript written in Latin that had been rediscovered in modern times, “The Name of the Rose” was set in a 14th-century monastery where monks kept turning up dead.
From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2016
Purporting to solve that problem, How to Run a War is an ingenious pacifist tour de force, addressed to wealthy and politically powerful U. S. citizens who are "primarily responsible for American policies and opinions."
From Time Magazine Archive
Purporting to be an answer from Mr. Steel.
From The Crimson Blind by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)
