If a hotelier touts an unproven or dangerous medicine, or if a film actor sells polished stones or scented candles with purported health benefits, these are examples of a kind of informal fallacy called an "appeal to authority".

Sami is not the squeaky clean churchgoer that he purported to be.

Especially over the last 20 years, the purported link between progressive welfare policies and economic failure in the Northern European countries seems to point to the difficulty of sustaining both full social welfare and international competitivity.

It’s quite obvious that the purport of these misanthropic theories consists in slandering the working masses, relieving imperialism from the responsibility for the bloody wars it provokes, and imposing the thought that wars are endless and are allegedly caused by aggressive tendencies in human nature.

Algeria purportedly is interested in sending peacekeepers to Libya.

The purported director of the film is still unknown.

Purportedly by means of the value derived from all the varied attributes of humanity.

Scientists are putting an herbal remedy from Madagascar, purported to cure COVID-19, to the test.

A number of purported grassroots movements are really astroturfing campaigns by the ultra-wealthy.

You purport to know what you're talking about; why don't you know about this?