How to Use purview in a Sentence

purview

noun
  • The case is within the court's purview.
  • The moral dilemmas of the early settlers are beyond the purview of this book.
  • That question is outside my purview.
  • The new post came with a wide purview.
    — Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Does that purview limit the chef?
    — Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • That solitude and scenery used to be the purview of a club of outdoor purists.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The show wasn’t without flaws — some of which stretched beyond the singer’s purview.
    — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • So this is an issue that may fall under a finance chief’s purview.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2023
  • That’s a fight that will occur many levels above Milne’s purview.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Each and every one of us must learn the skills that were once the purview of journalists.
    — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The garden is the purview of two women who live in the garret apartment.
    — Sophie Haigney, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2021
  • This means tech is no longer the purview of the IT department alone.
    — Nitin Rakesh, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The section will still be under her purview in her new position.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Helping people to feel good used to be well within a doctor’s purview.
    — Hannah Kerman, STAT, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The panel does not have the purview over whether to require prescriptions.
    — Joseph Choi, The Hill, 19 Sep. 2025
  • While many argued that the issue fell outside of the council’s purview.
    — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Such work normally falls within the purview of public health rather than medicine.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • For her, food is a love language and nothing in her purview will be lost in translation.
    — Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Yet the movie takes a narrow purview, starting with the actors themselves.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
  • For years, the concept was somehow framed as outside the C-suite’s purview.
    — Declan Harty, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Surely the toys, no matter how limited their purview, would have caught on by now, too?
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 19 June 2026
  • There’s nothing all that right about it, either, at least from a real estate purview.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The tribes contend the slot-machine-like machines are a game of chance and under its purview.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Smartify, on the other hand, wants to app-ify what was once the purview of an audio guide.
    — Sophie Haigney, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The biggest move for Walden is adding film operations to her purview.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The purview doesn't have to be limited to on-field success at the expense of all other things.
    — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 23 June 2020
  • By then Medici had joined the Rangers, and Louisville was under his purview.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 29 Feb. 2020
  • As for praying for rain, sometimes that’s not just the purview of clerics and faith traditions.
    — Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
  • And not just Hind — everyone in the film’s purview whose life was brutally cut short.
    — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
  • In short, anything to do with their visual image falls under Leon’s purview.
    — Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 14 Nov. 2025

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