Sample Sentences for
purport
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purport as in:  Her ex-husband purports that...

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Even among the people who purport to understand the technology there is wide disagreement about its ramifications.
purport = claim
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    They purport that the poll is unbiased and shows that Americans who are acquainted with the facts support the legislation.
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    They point to the purported original document as evidence of their ownership.
    purported = claimed
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    The manufacturer purports that the supplement wards off colds.
    purports = claims
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    They purport that the video is of a flying saucer.
    purport = claim
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    They purport to support the legislation out of concern for the environment, but many suspect profit is their primary motive.
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    The Protocols, published in 1903, purported to be a record of a secret meeting of powerful Jews planning world domination.†  (source)
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    She purports to have no memory of the murders; or at least of the Montgomery woman's.  (source)
    purports = claims
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    Most of these are lost; but I find one purporting to be the substance of an intended creed, containing, as I thought, the essentials of every known religion, and being free of every thing that might shock the professors of any religion.  (source)
    purporting = claiming
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    He then delivered a note to McMillian, purportedly written by Karen Kelly.†  (source)
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    "If it's any comfort to you, Mrs. Wexler," Judge Ford remarked with biting dignity, "I am just as appalled by our purported relationship."†  (source)
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    I caution you that everything you've just seen and heard from Ancil might not be all that it purports to be.  (source)
    purports = claims
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    From someone purporting to be your attorney out there, requesting a transfer of funds.†  (source)
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    Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who had purportedly come here to speak on behalf of Sen.†  (source)
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purport as in:  The purport of the letter was...

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The purport of the letter is that she is innocent and claims to the contrary are motivated by greed.
purport = general meaning
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    The second letter was from another witness and of the same purport as the first.
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    The purport of the legislation is to improve health care.
    purport = purpose or intent
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    The second and third pages purport to be his last will and testament.  (source)
    purport = are claimed
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    Yet such must be the impression conveyed to you by what appears to be the purport of my actions.  (source)
    purport = purpose
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    They little guessed what deadly purport lurked in those self-condemning words.  (source)
    purport = meaning or significance
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    The principal purport of his letter was to inform them that Mr. Wickham had resolved on quitting the militia.  (source)
    purport = purpose
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    Sir, if I rightly understand the purport of your message ... 'this post is to be immediately surrendered or the garrison put to the sword.'  (source)
    purport = the general meaning
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    The purport of Cedric's speech was repeated to him in French.  (source)
    purport = essence or gist
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    Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; and the spectre is known at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.  (source)
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    This is the purport of what I remember as urged by both sides, except that…  (source)
    purport = meaning
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    The friend that you purport is your master.†  (source)
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    Being at liberty, I lost no time in seeking the old servant; who, having gathered by degrees the purport of my hasty tale, hurried below, gasping, as he descended the steps two at once.†  (source)
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    Marguerite, impulsive, thoughtless, not calculating the purport of her words, still smarting under the terrible insult her brother had suffered at the Marquis' hands, happened to hear—amongst her own coterie—that the St. Cyrs were in treasonable correspondence with Austria, hoping to obtain the Emperor's support to quell the growing revolution in their own country.†  (source)
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