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Example sentences for "presumed"

Lexicographically close words:
prestis; presto; presumable; presumably; presume; presumedly; presumes; presuming; presumption; presumptions
  1. I have always acted in this manner, when any body has presumed to give out threatenings against it.

  2. They killed the first Arabians that presumed to lay hands on them; and, though the number was redoubled, they were not dismayed, but resolved to perish in the conflict.

  3. This woman would snub any hochwohlgeboren who presumed to snub him in the future.

  4. Whether Germany were delivered or razed to the earth was all one to her, but she was more than willing, as a Bavarian with a traditional hatred of Prussia, to play her part in the downfall of a race that presumed to call itself German.

  5. He tingled less agreeably as he recalled a snub administered by a great lady with whom he had presumed to attempt conversation at the house of a liberal little Russian baroness.

  6. I compared the presumed mean temperature of the air of the convent of Caripe, 65.

  7. If I once presumed for a moment, have I repeated my offence?

  8. How is it possible that he can ever hear without a scorn and indignation which would be fatal to your fortunes that your heart has presumed to choose, in William Mainwaring, a man without ancestry or career?

  9. It has been suggested that when the changes are rapid it must be presumed that great atmospheric storms are to be considered as in progress, and possibly this may be the true explanation.

  10. A knowledge of Mankind, and of Legislative affairs cannot be presumed to belong in a higher degree to the Judges than to the Legislature.

  11. As Judges they are not to be presumed to possess any peculiar knowledge of the mere policy of public measures.

  12. The latter he presumed was out of the question.

  13. Is it to be presumed that the people will ever agree to such a system?

  14. He presumed also that some of the largest States would be divided.

  15. M^r Pinkney apprehended that some gentlemen reasoned on a supposition that the Executive was to have powers which would not be committed to him: He presumed that his powers would be so circumscribed as to render impeachments unnecessary.

  16. The State Judiciary had not & he presumed w^d not be proposed as a proper source of appointment.

  17. It could not be presumed that all or even a majority of the members of an Assembly would either lose their capacity for discharging, or be bribed to betray, their trust.

  18. If Klesmer has presumed to offer himself to you, your father shall horsewhip him off the premises.

  19. While I have adopted a method, I have not presumed to imitate its great exemplars.

  20. She insisted on it, and I presumed to guess that she deemed it necessary for the sake of peace in that home.

  21. How she could ever have presumed to combat it, was an astonishment to her.

  22. I have not previously presumed to entertain a friend.

  23. But Sydenham himself made medical books and may be presumed to have thought those at least worth reading.

  24. A man is presumed innocent until he is proved guilty.

  25. The great point was to know where to cross it, but as John had found out the means of so doing, it was to be presumed that there was a passage, and they set off to look for it.

  26. We have the information that the boy is alive, at least it is presumed so; but of course the Indians do not know that we have received such information; if they did, the woman would be killed immediately.

  27. It is to be presumed that their performance is "piece-work," the only work which brings out the true effort of the labourer.

  28. I had the strongest desire to see so exalted a character; but I feared that I should be unable to give a proper account why I had presumed to trouble him with a visit, and that I should sink to nothing before him.

  29. A curious example is the immunity of the wife in certain cases from punishment for crime committed in the presence and on the presumed coercion of the husband.

  30. She had been but a few days in Amesa's home when he discovered that she was not the person he had presumed her to be.

  31. The civil authorities are not presumed to be on his side.

  32. But to continue: it was a real pleasure to me--though I have seldom been so angry--to rend and crush those too enterprising wolves who had presumed to attack my person.

  33. The place, from whence it was presumed they were shot was a high rocky mountain, excavated from one side to the other, wherein was a grotto that went through it, only capable of admitting one horse, or other beast laden.

  34. New judges also here, among which was Milton, a Papist (brother to that Milton who wrote for the Regicides), who presumed to take his place without passing the Test.

  35. Others whispered that the Bishops and Lords, except the Earls of Bath and Feversham, being ordered to withdraw the night before, Huddleston, the priest, had presumed to administer the Popish offices.

  36. Oates dedicated a most villainous, reviling book against King James, which he presumed to present to King William, who could not but abhor it, speaking so infamously and untruly of his late beloved Queen's own father.

  37. The character of his audience, and the profession of the speaker, might be presumed to give assurance of absolute accuracy concerning any question of historic fact.

  38. If an observer more than ordinarily keen-sighted detected at times something like exultation in his eye, he presumed it sprang from the excitement of the moment and the anticipation of victory.

  39. Yet at the age of nineteen he presumed to aspire to become a lawyer!

  40. Its harbors, bays, lakes and rivers are among the finest in the world, while its neglected mineral wealth is presumed to be all but inexhaustible.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presumed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alleged; assumed; circumstantial; due; expected; foreseen; given; granted; hypothetical; imminent; implicated; indicated; inferred; involved; meant; overdue; preconceived; predetermined; predisposed; prejudicial; presumed; presumptive; presupposed; probable; promised; prospective; putative; reputed; specious; supposed; supposititious; prospective; putative; reputed; specious; supposed; supposititious