peddle
verb (used with object)
to carry (small articles, goods, wares, etc.) from place to place for sale at retail; hawk.
had peddled
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past perfectof peddle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Others felt they were duped by the authors or that the editors and publishers had peddled a deception, while some saw it simply as a debate over creative expression.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
This legal dust-up involved supposedly conservative municipal bond investments that Smith Barney had peddled to its wealthiest clients.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2011
When they heard reports that Lewandowski had peddled negative stories about Kushner to reporters, the kids confronted Trump over a Father’s Day gathering at his Bedminster, N.J., golf club.
From Time ● Nov. 29, 2
In high school he had peddled exam answers to his fellow students, then told his teacher that they were cheating.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mosher Turkletaub, who had peddled new feet for stockings and calico for the sacques the peasant women wore in the fields, reckoning no longer in dozens of rubles but in dozens of thousands!
From The Vertical City by Fannie Hurst
