Example sentences for: sourced

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

  • Predictably, the NYT story is sourced to "White House officials" and "aides" in the first few paragraphs; oddly enough, it quotes Bruce Reed (Clinton's chief domestic policy advisor) by name at the end.

  • The New York Times leads with a report, sourced to senior White House advisors, that President Clinton has discussed, but not finally committed to, a strategy of acknowledging to the grand jury on Monday that he'd had intimate sexual encounters with Monica Lewinsky.

  • The anonymously sourced, front-page story reports that these manufacturers include Sandia National Laboratories, Lockheed Martin, and the Navy--but probably not Los Alamos National Labratory, where an employee, Wen Ho Lee, had been targeted by a much-criticized espionage investigation.

  • The Washington Post goes with anonymously sourced reports of Chinese military plotting against Taiwan, a story fronted by the NYT .

  • That same year, the paper digested Kitty Kelley's spuriously sourced Nancy Reagan biography on Page 1. In a transparent lunge for a Pulitzer Prize in early 1996, the Times published a seven-part series alleging that the downsizing of the American workforce was creating "millions of casualties."


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