Example sentences for: purveyor

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

  • Among its renowned shops are Rongbaozhai (art and art supplies), the China Bookstore (old books), Jijuge (a teahouse featuring clay figures from tombs), and Wenshenzhai (former purveyor of fans and paper lanterns to the Qing Dynasty).

  • More troublesome is the CIA's unprecedented role as purveyor of the official government line.

  • Starbucks was a low-key purveyor of fine coffee for years until Howard Schultz--a New Yorker who would be welcomed in California--took over and turned it into a corporate behemoth, opening stores across the world.

  • What could be more Midcult than the Modern Library--populist purveyor of affordable classics--making a list of the 100 greatest English-language novels of the past 100 years?

  • He had emigrated to the United States from Poland some 20 years before, and though his translated work was already acquiring a following, he was a long way from becoming the puckish purveyor of Old World culture who charmed the American public and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1978.


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