purporting in English
she is not the person she purports to be
Use "purporting" in a sentence
1. 30 Two undercover officers purporting to be dealers infiltrated the gang.
2. Purporting to act under the terms of the lease, the parties appointed an arbitrator, and Ipswich appealed against his award.
3. 24 An algorithm purporting to match what is presumed to be operating in a human brain would need to be a stupendous thing.
4. The video features the band members walking and performing in the woods in Nashville, Tennessee (purporting to be Forks, Washington).
5. The history of appeasement repeats itself Not only does he Anathematise Stalin, he turns his fire on others who must bear some of the guilt by purporting to see …
6. Origin of Absquatulate Mock-Latinate formation (perhaps influenced by abscond) purporting to mean “to go off and squat elsewhere” ab- squat -ulate (as in perambulate) From American Heritage Dictionary …
7. Phishing/whaling is the fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies to trick individuals into revealing personal information, such as passwords and account numbers, or to acquire control over a user account in your domain.
8. Davy Crockett Almanacks and other literature purporting to have been written by him began appearing a year or so before his death at the Battle of the Alamo, March 6, 1836.
9. The Bible is the holy scripture of the Christian religion, purporting to tell the history of the Earth from its earliest creation to the spread of Christianity in the first century A.D.
10. In 1993, William Safire identified several contrasting senses of factoid: "factoid: accusatory: misinformation purporting to be factual; or, a phony statistic." "factoid: neutral: seemingly though not necessarily factual" "factoid: (the CNN version): a little-known bit of information; trivial but interesting data."
11. In the West, astrology most often consists of a system of horoscopes purporting to explain aspects of a person's personality and predict future events in their life based on the positions of the sun, moon, and other celestial objects at the time of their birth.
12. If more than one return or paper purporting to be a return from a State shall have been received by the President of the Senate, those votes, and those only, shall be Counted which shall have been regularly given by the electors who are shown by the determination mentioned in section 5 of this title to have been appointed, if the determination
13. Moreover, it should be noted that in purporting not to recognize the nationalization process which took place in Cuba in the 1960s and was carried out with strict adherence to the principle of legality, the United States Government is violating the right of the Republic of Cuba to national sovereignty over its natural resources, as well as its sovereign right to carry out forced expropriation for reasons of public interest, or confiscation of property that derives from the participation of its owners in activities illegal under its domestic law.