purvey
verb (used with object)
to provide, furnish, or supply (especially food or provisions) usually as a business or service.
purveys
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present tense formof purvey (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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There’s Remnant Brewing, a taproom by night and coffeehouse by day, a vegetarian takeout eatery called Saus, and Hot Box, which purveys North Shore roast beef sandwiches, a regional specialty.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
Some will love the airy cringe that White purveys here, which intensifies as this series goes deeper into its run.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2021
More damningly, his column purveys the prejudices of the people who bankroll Broadway shows.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2015
Dropping a story that purveys largely true information is indeed something that needs explaining after all.
From Forbes ● Jun. 30, 2013
Thus is it that a parent's care purveys His bounty, and, exacting rigorously The price in tears, each boon's full cost defrays?
From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton
