was purveying
- past progressive of purvey.
Example Sentences
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In overlapping scenes, we learn that, while Dex was more or less honest, even in regard to his ambivalence about his coming marriage, Shellie was purveying her own American fiction.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2016
When Williams revived the Korngold manner, he was purveying nostalgia for a style that, in its echoes of turn-of-the-century post-Wagnerian opulence, was nostalgic to begin with.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 1, 2016
