Example sentences for: purveyors

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

  • The Friendship Store on east Chang’an Avenue and the aging Wangfujing Department Store (255 Wangfujing Dajie), once purveyors of Beijing’s most up-to-date fashions and top merchandise, have been superseded by the sudden eruption of huge shopping malls and plazas.

  • Walker and Annie Turnbo Malone, two of the best-known entrepreneurs in African-American history, were both daughters of slaves, orphaned as children, who began as purveyors of black women's hair potions.

  • Rather, he recites these details to raise a larger question: Do purveyors of extreme predictions ever pay a price when their predictions prove wrong?

  • Their differences from Elvis (more literate and lovable, less slick and racially ambiguous) were what made their similarities with Elvis (purveyors of courtship music for teen-agers, a scandal to grown-ups) work.

  • Even when one is not given to viewing every change in language with fear and loathing, it does seem that any loss of clarity—especially on the part of politicians and of those who are the principal purveyors of information—ought to cause some alarm.


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