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Example sentences for: purported

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

Last summer, when the U.S. destroyed a purported pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan with cruise missiles, saying that it was in fact making nerve gas for Osama bin Laden, the NYT quickly raised doubts about the government's account of the facility.
Cohen is infuriated by this purported tendency to suppress the gangster past and is even more angered by attempts to make light of it.
The Heaven's Gate Web site chronicles, if opaquely, the purported history of the group.
Example: "One of the reasons why we feel that this impeachment trial is really not what it's purported to be is that there have been four years of investigations.
These proposals reflected the purported desire of mailers for smaller and, implicitly, more frequent rate increases.