How To Use Peddle In A Sentence

  • vintner" and "peddler" of his objurgations, and meekly whispers into his ear with the air of a conspirator reporting a plot to his chief. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
  • Cities such as Moscow, Novgorod, Pskov, and Yaroslavl grew around the old fortresses (kremlins) and monasteries that formed their centers and near the gates where artisans and traders peddled their goods.
  • They even set up their own news agency to peddle anti-isolationist propaganda.
  • Rather, he peddled bromides about journalism: ‘I said that a journalist's duty was to report the truth, not support a cause.’
  • I thought his favor was excessive; certainly I never thought their powers were any more real than those cheapjack toadstone-peddlers or the granny-wives who claim they can put a bad word on someone's cow. The Silent Tower
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  • Pushers peddle drugs hidden inside cigarette boxes spread out on the sidewalk.
  • But does that make him more reprehensible than anyone else who took drugs or peddled them? Times, Sunday Times
  • I thought there were three kinds of people you Aiel let come out here in the Waste; peddlers, gleemen, and the Traveling People. The Shadow Rising
  • Very few people, even propagandists knowingly lie, and they tend to believe what they peddle is in fact very true. Matthew Yglesias » Chait Responds
  • Those were two of the things Aiel did to those who came into the Waste uninvited; only gleemen, peddlers, and Tinkers had safe passage, though Aiel avoided the Tinkers as if they carried fever. The Fires of Heaven
  • Wilson you know absolutely nothing about the environmental movement, so instead you peddle in simplistic lies, instead of educating yourself and debating them on any sort of intellectual level. Can We Drop The Global Warming Pretense Now? Please? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
  • Look, no one begrudges you your right to write books, peddle gossip or make money, which given the way your boss treats you, is understandable.
  • She apparently also used her contacts there to peddle a catalog for a merchandise corporation.
  • FRANCE are on the way back, or at least that is the line being peddled. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, that is an attitude that is shaped by my very Western lifestyle wherein Western grocery stores have no such thing as food courts attached to them wolfing down a sandwich slapped together at the Boar's Head deli counter while waiting in the Express checkout line does not count as a food court, and food courts in shopping malls are teeming with screaming, disobedient children, making for a highly unenjoyable, stressful decision-making process between deep-fried hot dogs impaled on sticks and peddled by pimple-faced Rain-bo Brites and the less arterially noxious chicken "patty" that has been breaded, deep-fried, and smeared with diet mayo. Tampopo - A Crunky Quickie at the Market
  • The organization has peddled the myth that they are supporting the local population.
  • There was a lot of freight switching for the local peddler to do here at White Sulphur, as there was everywhere, with stock pens in the early years, and LCL freight in box cars, and coal hoppers.
  • Male children worked as bootblacks and newsboys while girls peddled ‘nice Hot Corn, smoking hot, smoking hot, just from the pot!’
  • On a recent Saturday, Kyle Needham shucked oysters from Nova Scotia, while a Salvadoran immigrant peddled $9 pupusa platters. Flea Market for Foodies
  • Hard drugs are peddled to misguided youth and more than a few backdoor ‘massage parlours’ are in operation.
  • Those Luddites who once argued that we should protect jobs by resisting advances in labor-saving technology are rightly regarded as fools by today's peddlers of standard economic wisdom. The High Cost of a Cheap Pound
  • ` sir, master, 'a word borrowed by Hindi from Arabic; boxwallah ` peddler' combines English box and Hindi wallah ` person in charge of a particular thing '; chotapeg ` half-sized drink' unites Hindi chota VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
  • The only outsiders that came here was the occasional peddler and once a gleeman came through the village and stayed at the Inn his father owned.
  • That bull was riled plum to a franzy and that tin peddler was yaller as a punkin. Blue Ridge Country
  • Unfortunately, as co-blogger David Kopel points out, it seems more such debunking is needed, as some are still trying to peddle the myth of an expert consensus on this issue. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Myth of an Expert Consensus on the Constitutionality of the Health Care Mandate Revisited
  • I've peddled books an 'sewin'-machines, an' no end of a lot of traps ginerally. Dialect Tales
  • But these books are short - about twenty pages each - and without a spine, so we can call them chapbooks, which once meant works of popular literature sold for a few pennies, carried around by peddlers or ‘chapmen’.
  • It's odd though to be in a building with all of those faces, who for some reason or another have left their mark, who have become iconic enough for postcards of their likeness to be peddled to tourists.
  • Taxes are unpopular, so easier all round to peddle the myth that “too many people are in gaol” than to address the problem of persistent offenders. on October 8, 2009 at 6: 57 pm Wig and Gown Take A Deep Breath….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • These products are generally peddled door to door.
  • Mattan and the yellow jersey were right in the middle of the pack as it peddled hard in the blistering heat.
  • But it is the overall image of drugs being peddled openly and used by, in some instances children as young as 12, that is causing growing concern.
  • They came to work in the large industrial cities of the Northeast and Midwest as factory laborers, peddlers, busboys, and bootblacks.
  • This is not to say that we have a political line to peddle. Times, Sunday Times
  • The classic Volkswagen bus is a versatile beast - hippies, surfers, nuns, hot rodders and fruit-peddlers have all used the big, slow veedub as their primary means of conveyance.
  • Finally, I discovered I can cycle easily to a biggish supermarket nearby, which is a great relief in terms of buying food that is not too overpriced and unnecessarily organic and biodynamic and enzymatically enriched and whatever else the local whole earth store peddles. A working woman
  • Second Thoughts, without any critical examination of the information he peddled as fact.
  • Although at present, there is no evidence of anyone receiving a blowjob from a portly intern, so Chris Matthews is having a hard time understanding how any Republican elected official could be implicated and Jonah Goldberg's mother hasn't yet figured out how to peddle books on the subject and land a member of her nuclear family an unearned writing gig. 01/06/2006
  • The FA has peddled the idea of it being your England team too far. Times, Sunday Times
  • The peddler in disguise showed Snow White her beautiful, colorful laces.
  • The peddler melammed [teacher], going from door to door with siddur and Humash in hand, teaching boys and girls their aleph-bet, or the Old World rabbi confronting scores of boys in a basement heder, stood in stark contrast to the modern public school, with its imposing building and its corps of well-trained American teachers. Education of Jewish Girls in the United States.
  • That view, however widely it may be propagated, is so warped that it can only raise suspicions about the agenda of those who peddle it.
  • As we digest the probability that the House of Commons will vote to ratify the EU Constitution without a single shred of democratic legitimacy, even the Guardian, which can normally be relied upon to peddle the Party Line in as psittacine a manner as it can manage, has felt moved to object to the present undemocratic outrage being perpetrated by Labour. Archive 2008-01-20
  • His attempts to peddle his paintings around London's tiny gallery scene proved unsuccessful.
  • These products are generally peddled door to door.
  • Pencil thin models wearing strappy clothes peddle youth as the ultimate goal.
  • Give him a few months in office and America won't have any influence left to peddle. Times, Sunday Times
  • They took to the streets of the inner city to wash cars, sell cakes, peddle perfume, polish shoes and give massages and manicures, all in a bid to make a quick buck.
  • Peddlers and their advocates also drafted a so-called peddler's ordinance to exempt their cries from regulation under the anti-noise ordinance.
  • I'm sure Mitt will quickly learn from Vitter that you can shtup as many "escorts" or peddle as much porn as you like, as long as you just apologize for it and say God forgave you in the event you get caught. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Election Central Morning Roundup
  • When their money ran short, he stole from drunks and peddled drugs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Give him a few months in office and America won't have any influence left to peddle. Times, Sunday Times
  • That hatemongers still peddle their shopworn wares, disrupting lives, pitting neighbor against neighbor.
  • When they have their Red A advocate hats on, they rely on black-and-white thinking, peddle stereotypes, play to emotions, cherry pick, engage in confirmation bias and propaganda, act like thugs, and rationalize their unethical behavior because the end justifies the means. Advocacy in Science: a Parasitic Practice
  • Some have been forced to find work as street musicians, peddlers and beggars.
  • In 1929 she had the property covered and the dealers, the clothes traders, the second-hand merchants, the knick-knack sellers, the peddlers, were out of the rain, and so were the customers.
  • Street vendors peddle their goods along the sidewalk.
  • Two quirky labels peddle delightful kitsch - bags with bright rickshaw art and ensembles with wicked James Bond lines The kitschdom arrived sometime ago. WN.com - Articles related to Princess Beatrice steps out in racy Lily Allen style suspender tights
  • Scrap firms sometimes employed peddlers and scavengers, but they more frequently relied solely on the skills of the owner to sort and evaluate scrap from refuse.
  • When the spirit ration was stopped, illicit trade in the "crathur" was carried on by Jews and peddlers, who hung around the camp a short distance out in the woods. Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South
  • What are being peddled are not even promises but pure lies.
  • Peddler" could be just what it takes to get the wheels turning on a rethink of gender expectations in commitment, and also a label toward which some men may not want to steer, so instead, put on the breaks. Adam Foldes: 'Spinster'? What About 'Peddler'? A Gender Inequality in Terms of Commitment
  • I peddled grass, I was a steerer, I was a criminal, I snorted cocaine.
  • We have a poverty lobby which has peddled one line for years. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is not to say that we have a political line to peddle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Classical philosophers refer to them with contempt, as peddlers of absolution for a modest fee.
  • For the masses the only information available is the propaganda peddled in state-run newspapers and on the state-run television. Times, Sunday Times
  • Two quirky labels peddle delightful kitsch - bags with bright rickshaw Delhi can be rather dull, despite its high-end designer boutiques, but the weekend saw heightened activity, thanks to the launch of Designer Varun Sardana stripped the runway bare and removed the seats from the show area on Day 4. WN.com - Articles related to Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week kicks off in New Delhi
  • The appeal automatically quashes the conviction and the notion peddled by the state media that Karenyi ceases to be a member of parliament. AllAfrica News: Latest
  • How would you like to be chained to a stick and peddled up and down the street like a stuffed doll?
  • Classical philosophers refer to them with contempt, as peddlers of absolution for a modest fee.
  • On the one hand, he is a senior England player with a team line to peddle. Times, Sunday Times
  • When their money ran short, he stole from drunks and peddled drugs. Times, Sunday Times
  • The city streets were filled with peddlers and merchants shouting and trying to attract customers.
  • But not all of the critics who have attacked the President for being dishonest are peddlers of these way-out notions.
  • Prices were partly determined by the efficiency of merchants, traders, and peddlers, as we will see in the next section.
  • My first reaction was to think, ‘Here's some Neanderthal guy trying to peddle outdated gender stereotypes.’
  • But does that make him more reprehensible than anyone else who took drugs or peddled them? Times, Sunday Times
  • A commonly peddled myth that only the bookmakers have the contacts and wherewithal to lobby government has been discreetly disproved in recent weeks. Times, Sunday Times
  • In any case, some of the financial snake oil peddled at the height of the housing bubble was bad for saving.
  • The peddler melammed [teacher], going from door to door with siddur and Humash in hand, teaching boys and girls their aleph-bet, or the Old World rabbi confronting scores of boys in a basement heder, stood in stark contrast to the modern public school, with its imposing building and its corps of well-trained American teachers. Education of Jewish Girls in the United States.
  • In 1880, the Federal census reported 2,690 commercial travelers, hucksters, and peddlers based in Chicago - 98 percent of whom were men.
  • That morning, a peddler on Broad Street had extended a constellation of needle marks into her path, hand holding a fake plastic flower.
  • Other buzzing entrepreneurs would zoom up and buy your rejects to peddle at flea markets.
  • He peddled myth after myth as he claimed Britain had cut off food supplies to his country and wrecked its economy. The Sun
  • Illegal drugs are also peddled inside the compound; this has been the cause of much of the fighting.
  • He peddled small household articles around the town.
  • And in particular, this kind of bad science is being peddled for political ends, which makes it especially pressing to deplore it.
  • Instead of peddling drugs and booze, they now peddled women.
  • She flushed bright red and looked attentively at the two books Cermit had bought from a peddler who'd come through Whitherby. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • You take this story, peddle it to one of the big guys, I bet they'd pay you more than your biweekly salary. BLACKWATER SOUND
  • The longer that these myths are peddled, the longer we will fail to build the affordable homes we need in the places we need them. Times, Sunday Times
  • First-generation Greeks who were fruit and vegetable peddlers became owners of grocery stores; flower vendors opened florist shops.
  • We live in a time when all sorts of ideas and newfangled methods of writing instruction are being peddled by writers of educational material.
  • Workers in this informal sector include tinsmiths, seamstresses, bakers, carpenters, and peddlers.
  • The organization has peddled the myth that they are supporting the local population.
  • People should come to have fun - not come to clubs where they are peddled drugs. Times, Sunday Times
  • And so an alternative solution to hymenorrhaphy, many street peddlers in China now offer artificial hymens or maidenheads that inflate inside a woman's vagina, after which it can be Today.Az
  • And it's what is being peddled in too many of our newspapers and in too many of our classrooms.
  • Elkin does not wonder what it would be like if he were an elderly ragman, a peddler trundling a cart down the street and crying ‘Regs, all cloze.’
  • The court heard she continued to peddle heroin after her arrest, and was on a conditional discharge and probation for two separate offences of shoplifting during the drug crimes.
  • The streets, once bustling with peddlers, coca farmers and shady profiteers are now quiet at night.
  • Nearby Silas's cottage, they find a tinderbox, which makes a townsman recall that a peddler who'd come to town recently carried a tinderbox.
  • And this idea has been peddled by the intellectual elite in Britain for many years, more assiduously than anywhere else, to the extent that it is now taken for granted.
  • When he has his advocate hat on, he relies on black-and-white thinking, peddles stereotypes, plays to emotions, cherry picks, engages in confirmation bias and propaganda, acts like a thug, and rationalizes his unethical behavior because the end justifies the means. Advocacy in Science: a Parasitic Practice
  • She now peddles cheap jewelry on TV.
  • To be sure, plenty of companies peddle low-quality products at cheap prices to maximize their profits.
  • Isn't that the notion peddled about Indians, at least while there were enough of them around that a distinction mattered? Bush: Torturer, Tyrant, Disgrace
  • Most people who visit Fun Town expect to be able to sit quietly at an outside beer boozer and be pestered around 800 times an hour by the forlorn multitude of watch sellers, shoe shiners, cigarette floggers, carpet baggers, flower peddlers, photo snappers and others too numerous to mention.
  • No party that peddles race hate has a place in our country. The Sun
  • Even as the cordon of anti-noise ordinances tightened around peddlers, evidence also suggested that opinions differed on the subject of reasonable enforcement.
  • The idea of British ‘sportsmanship’ was peddled for popular consumption in the years leading up to the war.
  • I could be running out of the hospital now to peddle pharmacy-fresh methadone to junkies on the street.
  • Too much "dailiness" being peddled around here, I think. Exit Polls: In Ohio, Late-Breakers Favor Hillary By 11 Points
  • And none of the hedge fund geniuses think to actually pick up the phone and call the ostensible issuer of the notes just to check and see that the notes are real and Dreier is authorized to peddle them. Ron Kuby: A "Dryer" Version of Madoff
  • Sometimes women worked as cooks or as itinerant peddlers of small goods on the street.
  • If you're a glum dour downbeat killjoy who has nothing to peddle but reheated miserabilism, you will come across as a bitter fool, and no one will be persuaded.
  • Recently the Festival has been under the spell of one of those tiresome trendies who use the great works of the past as a profitable vehicle to peddle their fashionable nostrums.
  • It's just that, as a vegan, I'm sick of reading misinformation paid for and peddled by hugely rich, destructive corporations.
  • Slave-Power; such apologists and supporters of Wrong; such pusillanimous, weak-hearted advocates of the unpopular Right; such slaves to Cotton and its threats, that we had almost lost the God-given independence of American freemen, and seemed -- thank God! events have proved only _seemed_ -- to be entirely given up to money and mechanics, to have become, indeed, a nation of peddlers. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862
  • Peddlers also performed an ecological function as consummate street scavengers, collectors, and recycling artists.
  • He has peddled the myth that he is supporting the local population.
  • His attempts to peddle his paintings around London's tiny gallery scene proved unsuccessful.
  • People should come to have fun - not come to clubs where they are peddled drugs. Times, Sunday Times
  • My perspective is that Nazi propagandists (or any other propagandist whose works shields or justifies wrongdoing for political ends) peddle in dishonesty and are scum - no matter how artfully they do it. “Capitalism: A Love Story” angers and inspires » Scene-Stealers
  • She apparently also used her contacts there to peddle a catalog for a merchandise corporation.
  • A teenage drug dealer who peddled heroin and crack cocaine on the streets of Swindon is facing a lengthy jail term.
  • Village shops that once sold their ham in coffin-shaped tins, now peddle vac-packed slices of salami and prosciutto crudo, and this must surely be a step in the right direction.
  • And screw all the Independents too, all they peddle is crappy fringe music the masses don’t like or want anyway at expensive prices! Dutch firm moves in on Apple
  • They reveal so many surprising and new facts that it is a damning indictment of the usual histories that are peddled in schools and colleges.
  • He has peddled the myth that he is supporting the local population.
  • Classical philosophers refer to them with contempt, as peddlers of absolution for a modest fee.
  • Contrary to the myths peddled by politicians, lack of social mobility is not a significant problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • Peddlers and gleemen are welcome," Heirn replied curtly. The Shadow Rising
  • Peddlers Cross was an easy winner of the Morebattle Hurdle at Kelso as he limbered up for a run in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham. Peddlers Cross heads for Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham after easy win
  • In other examples, the calls peddled disinformation -- whether about a candidate or the location of a polling place. 11/17/2006
  • We have had long experience of that unmemorable felicity which consists in having no history, so far as history is made up of battles, revolutions, and changes of dynasty; but the present generation has never been called upon to learn that deepest lesson of polities which is taught by a common danger, throwing the people back on their national instincts, and superseding party-leaders, the peddlers of chicane, with men adequate to great occasions and dealers in destiny. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
  • If you believe that then, I am afraid, you have fallen hook line and sinker for the ill-informed and ignorant bile peddled by some of the media and extremists.
  • Trafficking is linked to international crime syndicates that peddle drugs, guns and false documents as well as people.
  • Number of times Mixer will lie, demand asymmetric evidence, and back peddle from a pathetic argument: infinite. Matthew Yglesias » The Wage Stagnation Debate
  • Luckily, the peddlers of this dangerous message haven't come up with a catchy jingle.
  • All we know of it is that it was being peddled to Sunday newspapers with an asking price of £60,000.
  • In the very situation I'm in at Vallelunga—a transient cornering maneuver with some speed, having to peddle the throttle to bring the nose into line—the Murcielago would be all wound up, its out-of-date stability software and AWD system agonizing between understeer and oversteer. Lambo's Latest Rambo Has a Heart
  • And he has peddled computers, copiers, and electronic switches.
  • The peddler was a middle-aged woman who is always happy to talk with travellers.
  • Meanwhile, for many of the rest of us, so used to devilling the advertising world as peddlers of greed and consumerism, it may be time to applaud and commend the bright spots around that we see. Avertising and Social Change
  • My query was about these "doubts on Qana" which as long as they remain unexplicit, can be thought to mean anything which is of course why certain people peddle these unexplicit "doubts". Reuters suspends Adnan Hajj - photographer from Qana
  • I believe it is unreasonable for people who have obviously never been to the city to peddle their stereotypical views as facts.
  • The peddler could almost hear him counting the pennies concealed in the bundle he clutched so protectively. THIS HEART OF MINE
  • Finally, the notion peddled by liberals that conservatives oppose their policies simply because they don't "understand" them, and therefore fear them, is just stupid. The Shad Plank
  • The peddler sold his wares cheap.
  • Classical philosophers refer to them with contempt, as peddlers of absolution for a modest fee.
  • But through it all, the only Apples we've had to sell are the glinty, erotic packages out of Cupertino, which we peddle on eBay's secondary market to make way for the next wonderment. Adam Hanft: Reincarnation Alert! The Depression Generation Is Returning! Meet the Upside-Down Generation
  • The interior of Port Rand was a veritable rat race of peasants and merchant peddlers, who constantly roamed the streets.
  • He has at one time or another promoted an image of a pimp daddy mack, a dope peddler, a businessman, a political teacher, a gangsta, and a revolutionary.
  • Police of the monopoly bureau, under the excuse of stopping the illegal sale of cigarettes, began attacking child peddlers and robbing them of their cigarettes.
  • Nineteenth-century medicine vendors often peddled tonics as a cure-all for symptoms as varied as a mild cough or severe rash.
  • No-one peddles more myths than the conventional economist, whose view of the world bears only the slightest connection to reality.
  • Farmers come to Seoul to peddle rice.
  • What confounds all reasoning is how such poor material could be peddled to his eager fan base.
  • Street sellers then drafted a so-called peddler's ordinance that would exempt them from anti-noise restrictions, but in late spring 1911, in a much-anticipated decision, the city council rejected the proposed amendment.
  • She and one guy (Eddie) escape in a "peddle"-powered (seriously, that's how it's spelled) submarine, and out in the ocean, they meet a strange zombie thing who calls himself Coleridge and is apparently curse-bound to recite "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (and, if you don't know it, holy crap is it a long poem!) to them. What I bought – 30 January 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • Hundreds of vendors peddle everything from mutton kebabs and beef soup to fried twisted dough and steamed rose cakes.
  • The ‘scandal’ stories were the essence of the politics of the decade - peddled by scribes who most often didn't understand the drama in which they were but bit players.
  • On the other hand, the hereditary dogmatism of their Southern kinsmen, is manifested in the summary disposition these make of all vagabond Yankees -- tinkers and peddlers -- found strolling about without any "local habitation," whenever they suspect them of being abolition emmissaries: for they incontinently ride the poor fellows on rails, and ornament their backs with a coat of tar and feathers, and sometimes administer to them hydropathically, giving them a succession of gentle douses in the nearest mill-pond, or oftener perhaps, in the pond attached to the nearest farmer's goosery. Social relations in our Southern States,
  • To date, yes: we've peddled tartan schlock in the form of hokum Burns Night suppers to generations of tourists so we can't blame them for finding novelty in the trappings of the occasion.
  • It is difficult to write of the relation of the older and most foreign-looking immigrants to the children of other people – the Italians whose fruit-carts are upset simply because they are "dagoes," or the Russian peddlers who are stoned and sometimes badly injured because it has become a code of honor in a gang of boys to thus express their derision. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
  • What good do you do anyone by writing verses, getting cash for silly slanders, peddling iambs as a huckster peddles trash?
  • His attempts to peddle his paintings around London's tiny gallery scene proved unsuccessful.
  • Corporations and private schools sell their facilities to the public, just as corporations have peddled tests that have netted them millions of dollars.
  • The boys were in the habit of filching fruit from the peddler's carts.
  • Workers in this informal sector include tinsmiths, seamstresses, bakers, carpenters, and peddlers.
  • Your father was a dog and your mother was lower than the wenches who peddle their assets in Boruva!
  • As for the musical's other antique qualities, we're not even going to get into the slightly creepy circumstances of Cable's liaison with gentle, younger-than-springtime Liat, arranged by her vulturous mother, the trinket peddler Bloody Mary. Smooth sailing
  • At an age when other kids play with toys, he was a street peddler of peanuts and a shoe-shiner.
  • That's the difference between real marriage and the ersatz versions peddled by the ‘modernists’ of today.
  • Every unearthable fact of his life was pulled out, torn apart, and pontificated upon by as many half-cocked pundits as had opinions to peddle. The Priest
  • Why do we get wrapped up in fictional conspiracies peddled by the “truthers” when there are REAL government conspiracies going un-prosecuted? Think Progress » Mitt Romney Claims That President Obama’s Words ‘Support’ 911 Truthers Abroad
  • A commonly peddled myth that only the bookmakers have the contacts and wherewithal to lobby government has been discreetly disproved in recent weeks. Times, Sunday Times
  • These are then peddled in factory canteens and through catalogues at ‘half bookshop price or less’.
  • He also said that “the notion peddled by the Webb campaign that I am somehow embarrassed by my heritage is equally offensive, and also absurd.” VA:SEN: Allen Admits Jewish Mother
  • For year after year, left wing jewish writers peddled an orwellian news-speak, distorting the freedoms of western society, throwing the term fascist at any libertarian who dared to suggest that socialism is an basic evil. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • A plethora of street vendors enthusiastically peddle their wares a bottle's throw from the two pubs.
  • The cart, disguised as a kerosene peddler's wagon, was suspicious because it had no spigot to dispense fuel.
  • In that, I propose an extension to the definition of "peddler. Adam Foldes: 'Spinster'? What About 'Peddler'? A Gender Inequality in Terms of Commitment
  • It may not have been through free will, but a substantial amount of the drug was peddled in this area causing grief, misery and upset.
  • In any case, some of the financial snake oil peddled at the height of the housing bubble was bad for saving.
  • She stood at the front door watching the delivery boy hop back on his bicycle and peddle away.
  • The FA has peddled the idea of it being your England team too far. Times, Sunday Times
  • The idea that the kids are whizzes at multimedia tasking is a platitude confected by middle-aged techno gurus to peddle their expertise as explainers of generational difference. Time For A Slow-Word Movement
  • Finally he found his game with whom he stood in to peddle his smuggled watches.
  • The lobbying rules in Congress are aimed at slowing down what is known as the "revolving door" between working on Capitol Hill and working as a lobbyist, where one is paid to peddle influence. Former aide to Sen. John Ensign indicted by feds
  • Peddle sometimes pleasant , stop and yearn after solicitting many people.
  • When you peddle in either way, the byke go's that way. Sexy Beast: Everyone's a Rock Star
  • There's another trope that pops up with some frequency to do the same work, only instead of focusing on the trauma experienced by individual soldiers, it peddles a kind of mawkish brotherhood-between-soldiers as the greater moral good in war. Kick Him, Honey
  • Americans have grown accustomed to cynically dismissing campaign promises peddled by politicians on the stump as pure pablum.
  • Much the same advice applies as in Spain; avoid leather goods and wooden trinkets, especially those peddled by hawkers who wander the beaches of the Algarve interrupting your sunbathing.
  • I thought his favor was excessive; certainly I never thought their powers were any more real than those cheapjack toadstone-peddlers or the granny-wives who claim they can put a bad word on someone's cow. The Silent Tower
  • These products are generally peddled door to door.
  • Teenagers are being recruited by hardcore London-based criminal gangs to peddle drugs on the streets of Swindon.

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