How To Use purvey In A Sentence
- So what interest has a purveyor of haute couture and 10,000 handbags have in a sportswear company? Times, Sunday Times
- Though never quite managing to hit commercial paydirt, Glasgow-born singer/songwriter John Martyn has carved out an acclaimed career by purveying an idiosyncratic mix of rock, folk and jazz.
- Now it's a purveyor of food of some local renown. Times, Sunday Times
- Apparently, today's purveyors of pagan religions have sidestepped this question by changing the labels.
- Fuller became a thorn in the government's side on many other issues, particularly the great questions of royal finance, purveyance and impositions.
- As a result of this selection being chosen, testing for a liberal media bias, whether one views it as an assertion or an assumption was not within the purveyance of this study.
- Reading about the fuggy alcoholic blurs always so lucidly expressed of experiences with the literary and intellectual luminaries of his day, one might wonder whether Hitchens is the dreamer or the dreamed, the purveyor of an intellectual fantasy or the product of other peoples' ideas. Ashley Rindsberg: On Hitchens
- Then came the '70s with West African juju and high life music whose main purveyors were the Osibisa, Manu Dibango and late Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
- William Cecil thought it would be a good idea to replace purveyance entirely with composition and gradually this began to be the case.
- For instance, the use of purveyance began to attract criticism in the last fifteen years of the reign.