purvey
verb (used with object)
to provide, furnish, or supply (especially food or provisions) usually as a business or service.
purveyed
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past participleof purvey.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof purvey.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
purveyverb (used with object)to provide, furnish, or supply (especially food or provisions) usually as a business or service.
Example Sentences
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Recognizability was never an issue for a clutch of business leaders who died this year, at least in terms of the products they purveyed.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
That’s the image purveyed by “Unprecedented,” Alex Holder’s three-hour documentary that premiered on Discovery Plus on Sunday.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2022
That’s because unalloyed optimism, which is what’s generally purveyed by corporate executives, is unhealthy for capitalism, just as living on a diet exclusively of Twinkies would be for you or me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
“It should not be construed as an endorsement of the ideas or narrative purveyed, nor of the personal conduct of the author.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2021
I am like a certain philanthropist of whom I have heard who purveyed sherbet to the rival camps of the Sultan of Morocco and the Pretender.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 24, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
