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Example sentences for "presumably"

Lexicographically close words:
prestige; prestigious; prestis; presto; presumable; presume; presumed; presumedly; presumes; presuming
  1. Upon the steamship proper, the crush of prospective travellers, of their friends and relatives and of others who presumably had been drawn by mere curiosity, was terrific.

  2. Presumably our young equestriennes, if abroad, had taken some other direction.

  3. There was also a black woodcock, presumably a mate of this one; but it--it has been disposed of.

  4. The commanding officer of the military squad makes the discovery that the six cannon balls are but thin hollow metal shells containing cavities or recesses, into which presumably fulminating explosives might be introduced.

  5. He was also sobbing audibly, presumably from homesickness.

  6. It has been mutilated by a former owner, and the signature of the leaf is missing, but it was presumably G G 3.

  7. He was presumably a new-comer in the literary field who surprised older men of benevolent tendency into admiration by his promise rather than by his achievement.

  8. The allusions that were presumably made to the episode by the author of 'Avisa' bring it, in fact, nearer the confines of comedy than of tragedy.

  9. The brief account does not state what part of Norumbega was visited; but the circumstances point to the northern part, and presumably to the Penobscot region of Maine.

  10. With the exception of the legend on the map already mentioned, it is the only direct testimony presumably from Sebastian himself as to the principal fact involved.

  11. She settled the question by procuring the necessary apparel with which to change her appearance to that of a boy, which she carried away with her when she left the city--presumably to return to her home.

  12. Tezcot was still on the mountain, where he had gone in the morning, presumably to hunt.

  13. On being informed that she had gone around the mountain, presumably to do some shooting, he determined to go in search of her.

  14. It certainly must be looked upon as a curious coincidence that carvings found at a point so remote from the Elephant Mound, and presumably the work of other hands, should so closely copy the imperfections of that mound.

  15. To begin with, the jaguar or panther, by which vernacular names the Felis onca is presumably meant, is not only found in Northern Mexico, but extends its range into the United States and appears as far north as the Red River of Louisiana.

  16. Albumoses and peptones injected into the jugular vein likewise produce fever, presumably through some action on the nervous system by which the equilibrium of tissue-metamorphosis is interfered with.

  17. This body is not only a product of the pancreatic digestion of proteids, but it is also formed whenever native proteids are broken down through any influence whatever, the substance coming presumably from the hemi-moiety of the molecule.

  18. As a product of trypsin-proteolysis, it must presumably come from the cleavage of hemipeptone, which, however, contains only 0.

  19. These, and other similar crystalline bodies, are likewise the typical end-products of proteolysis by trypsin, and presumably come directly from the breaking-down of hemipeptone.

  20. Like the previous theory, it implies the production of hydrochloric acid from a chloride or chlorides, through chemical processes taking place in the stomach-mucosa, and presumably in the large border-cells of the peptic glands.

  21. Narcotic action is manifested only so long as the blood-pressure remains sub-normal, and is due presumably to this marked accumulation of blood in the large abdominal veins, thus leading to anæmia of the brain.

  22. Presumably she owned the stiletto which a hat pin is.

  23. The application to evil communications might, in such a connection, be a little ambiguous, but presumably nobody imagined it to refer to the Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway!

  24. But the clerks unable to grapple with so unaccustomed a situation, beat a hasty retreat, and nothing more was heard of what was presumably a more or less accidental "assault.

  25. The Governor--the representative of Imperial power and Imperial justice--knew presumably what was going on, yet he uttered not one word of remonstrance.

  26. X bases his defence on an Act of the Irish Parliament, drawn by Irish statesmen, and approved presumably by Irish electors.

  27. The first of these fallacies is, that the poppy is not indigenous to China, but has been recently introduced there, presumably by British agency.

  28. The first of these fallacies which have so much tended to warp the understanding of these Anti-Opium people is this: "That the poppy is not indigenous to China, but has been recently introduced there, presumably by British agency.

  29. The addressee was presumably Count Esterhazy, whose guest Liszt was in Presburg in 1840.

  30. The recipient of this letter was presumably Count Teleky, a friend of Liszt's, who often accompanied the latter on his triumphal European journeys, and who was himself an active musician and literary man.

  31. Alfred Bovet in Valentigney--The above was presumably the addressee.

  32. At the same moment Margery Milton entered from the hall, where she had presumably been impressing upon Simpson the necessity of remaining in strict hiding.

  33. Presumably Senator Norman had not cared to educate his young wife about political matters.

  34. Part way down the block on the other side of the roadway a car, presumably a taxi, stood by the curb, with a man walking up and down beside it.

  35. Away there on the ridge, that tower is Lower Gidding, so called, presumably because Upper Gidding, ten miles away, is about two hundred feet lower down to the sea level.

  36. Our predecessors in the line seemed to have made no effort to wire this part of the line at all, presumably thinking the line of craters a sufficient protection.

  37. Brigadier moved his Headquarters into Mericourt, and the Boche, presumably thinking the village was now as full as it was likely to be during the day, shelled it vigorously with gas and High Explosive.

  38. This was because the other members would presumably be dressing between six and seven.

  39. He took as the basis of his reasoning one fact in connection with the wireless messages we were receiving--that they were faint, and therefore presumably far distant or sent by a weak battery.

  40. It therefore becomes necessary to inquire why in some cases an organ is retained by the embryo after its loss by the adult, whereas in other cases it dwindles and presumably disappears simultaneously in the embryo and the adult.

  41. But there are undoubtedly some, though not many, cases in which organs which were presumably present in an ancestral adult have persisted in the embryo of the modern form.

  42. Amphioxus, Balanoglossus and presumably Sagitta and the Brachiopoda, all the mesodermal tissues pass through the epithelial condition, most of the mesodermal tissues of the adult retaining this condition permanently.

  43. And so with the converse; a writer who fails to make himself understood, as presumably in my case, may either believe in his heart that it is not so .

  44. The others would have shared the same fate had not another chief, one presumably of higher authority than Nteseni, prevented it, and he had only done this with some difficulty.

  45. I immediately beg of him to take it where its presumably benign influence will fail to reach me.

  46. He remained at the cab, presumably in talk with those within, for several minutes.

  47. Our square-faced Roumanians on page 621 may presumably be taken to represent this type.

  48. Presumably also toward the east among the Bulgarians in Macedonia and Thrace these characteristics diminish in intensity.

  49. This apparently was all the formality necessary: and in the case of a teacher even this was dispensed with, for being presumably acquainted with the law of things clean and unclean he was regarded as ex officio a chaber.

  50. The habitual divergences from it are only accounted for on the hypothesis that the original compiler was better acquainted with the New Testament in Greek than in Latin, and therefore presumably that he wrote in Greek.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presumably" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    doubtless; doubtlessly; indubitably; likely; presumably; probably; quasi; seemingly