Example Sentences

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Mr. Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny J. Davis, said Mr. Gaetz had peddled “despicable lies and personal smears.”

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2019

The surreal scene at Jets headquarters Monday seemed fitting for a team that had peddled its inflated beliefs: in the end, all that noise produced nothing.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2012

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

When Oklahoma City's Penn Square Bank collapsed in 1982, it left institutions all over the country stuck with huge packages of the dubious energy loans it had peddled.

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 Hurst, Fannie