Example sentences for: purdum

How can you use “purdum” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Left out of Purdum's piece, because it vitiated his argument, was the fact that millions of Southern Californians (and our tourists) do get excited a few hours after New Year's Eve by the Rose Parade, which lasts a lot longer than a fireworks show, and is slightly less inexplicable than the diaphanously costumed dancers who cavorted through Times Square last Friday.

  • Insult was added to injury when Todd Purdum in the Sunday New York Times took out after us for our lack of excitement, resuscitating the "laid-back" stereotype that I thought had been shipped off to Seattle a decade or so ago, along with our laid-off aerospace workers.

  • The problem, says Purdum, was that the president spent too much time "pouring over past Presidential speeches and anthologies of poetry."

  • Witness Sunday's NYT piece on Kauai by the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief Todd S. Purdum, who tore himself away for a week in order to break the bulletin that "the exoticism of the island state is palpable and omnipresent."

  • If so, you have to wonder why the NYT didn't have the story too, since Myers's significant other is its L.A. bureau chief, Todd Purdum.


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