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Purports is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Purports in a sentence

Purports | Purported | Purporting | Purport

Purports meaning

third-person singular simple present indicative of purport

Using Purports

  • The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of purport
  • In the example corpus, purports often appears in combinations such as: purports to, that purports, it purports.

Context around Purports

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
  • Position in the sentence: 9 start, 6 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Purports

  • In this selection, "purports" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, video, prigozhin and show stand out and add context to how "purports" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include the video purports to show and government that purports that it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "purports" sits close to words such as aarp, abdi and abuzz, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with purports

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

The Applicant purports to describe the reality in Gaza. (9 words)

The video purports to show Mr. Garg riding his motorcycle at high speed. (13 words)

The video purports to show Hon. Leke listing the supposed earnings of Nigerian lawmakers. (14 words)

A newly-released video of Yevgeny Prigozhin purports to show the Wagner group boss in Africa addressing rumours about his well-being and threats to his life, just days before his death, according to a media report. (37 words)

The crew is utterly unfazed by any of the poltergeists that the show purports to expose because they know the dirty little secret of reality television: Every episode is scripted before a single camera starts to roll. (37 words)

You also don’t know who your children will become—you might have a queer or trans child who grows up hearing someone who purports to love them saying hateful things about them. (33 words)

Example sentences (20)

A newly-released video of Yevgeny Prigozhin purports to show the Wagner group boss in Africa addressing rumours about his well-being and threats to his life, just days before his death, according to a media report.

She continued: "I cannot believe that any school would treat families like this, particularly one which purports to have such high values.

The crew is utterly unfazed by any of the poltergeists that the show purports to expose because they know the dirty little secret of reality television: Every episode is scripted before a single camera starts to roll.

The group purports to seek revenge for what they term “trans genocide,” a conspiracy theory that claims that transgender people are systemically targeted with violence.

The legislation purports to respond to a nonexistent problem: The unfounded fear that the feds are trying to seize people’s gas stoves (they’re not doing that, either).

A case in point is an organization called NewsGuard that purports to be the arbiter of truth.

A new two-part series on Oxygen True Crime purports to offer new details about the death of Tejano superstar Selena.

But for NPR, which purports to consider all things, it’s devastating both for its journalism and its business model.

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But it might allow for him to vote for the man threatening to wreck the Constitution that Pence purports to hold dear.

It is this fear of the unknown that made many Nigerians to easily forget about demanding accountability from the government that purports that it was elected by this same electorate.

Just ask Khaled Mashal, a wealthy senior Hamas official who lives a life of while the Gazans whom he purports to represent live in squalor and often serve as human shields.

Mysterious drones have been spotted flying over the United States, and a recent video purports to show a drone firing tracers over New Jersey.

One of the first outlets to report the false name, Ali Al-Shakati, was Channel 3 Now, an account on X that purports to be a news channel.

Some fans have been speculating about what happened to John Dutton and whether he is still alive, and one even purports to have proof.

The Applicant purports to describe the reality in Gaza.

The video purports to show Hon. Leke listing the supposed earnings of Nigerian lawmakers.

The video purports to show Mr. Garg riding his motorcycle at high speed.

While Dixon’s book purports to be about a feud between two Floridians, it’s actually more in keeping with other political anthropologies of specific conditions native to a place.

You also don’t know who your children will become—you might have a queer or trans child who grows up hearing someone who purports to love them saying hateful things about them.

But while the agency purports to have taken steps to incorporate privacy principles, it hasn’t consistently provided information to passengers about how the program works.

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Common combinations with purports

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "purports" in a sentence?
An example: "A newly-released video of Yevgeny Prigozhin purports to show the Wagner group boss in Africa addressing rumours about his well-being and threats to his life, just days before his death, according to a media report." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "purports" from authentic English texts.
What does "purports" mean?
Purports means: third-person singular simple present indicative of purport
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