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Example sentences for "rumoured"

Lexicographically close words:
rumor; rumored; rumores; rumors; rumour; rumours; rump; rumped; rumple; rumpled
  1. It was even rumoured that the German Foreign Office had begun to coquette with the Danish Social Democrats.

  2. At one time, since the present war opened, it was rumoured at Copenhagen that plural marriages were to be allowed, to increase the population of a nation so rapidly being depleted.

  3. The Crown Princess Cecilia became a favourite in Germany; it was rumoured that she was not sufficient of a German housewife to suit the Kaiser.

  4. Even the United States had begun to understand the importance of the post; and it was in the line of diplomatic usage when it was rumoured that I had been offered Vienna.

  5. At the beginning of the second week of June it was rumoured that the treaty might be substantially amended in favour of Turkey.

  6. The true reason was that the Supreme Council wanted to favour the Pan-Russian general, and it was even rumoured that Koltchak and Denikin had demanded this rich country to be set aside for the Tsar, whom they wanted to restore to the throne.

  7. It had been rumoured since Friday that there was a fiddler aboard, who lay sick and unmelodious in Steerage No.

  8. It was rumoured that a royal letter would come down recommending one Anthony Farmer to the vacant place.

  9. It had already been rumoured that Tyrconnel would soon return to Dublin armed with extraordinary and independent powers; and the rumour gathered strength daily.

  10. The Princess, though her income was large and her tastes simple, contracted debts which her father, not without some murmurs, discharged; and it was rumoured that her embarrassments had been caused by her prodigal bounty to her favourite.

  11. It was rumoured that every person holding such a license would shortly be required to enter into the same engagements which had been imposed on public functionaries, or to relinquish his trade.

  12. It was rumoured that he had actually gone over with all his troops to the enemy: and the rumour, though false, was, during some hours, fully believed.

  13. It was rumoured that the majority of the new constituent body of Tewkesbury was animated by the same sentiment which was general throughout the nation, and would, when the decisive day should arrive, send true Protestants to Parliament.

  14. They soon proved, however, less tractable than had been expected; and it was rumoured at court that they had been perverted by the company which they had kept in London.

  15. It is rumoured that on one occasion a fog produced in the Dover {100} Straits refused to dissipate itself for three days, with the result that mercantile captains said some very hard things about the clerk of the weather.

  16. It is rumoured that one of these two vessels arrived at her destination with her anti-submarine escort in tow, which thus early showed that proud spirit to which she so justly proved her right on St. George's Day, 1918.

  17. It was also rumoured that he would have something to say about the Lavilettes; and Christine had insisted upon going.

  18. Louis Lavilette and his wife knew nothing of their son's complicity in the rumoured revolt--one's own people are generally the last to learn of one's misdeeds.

  19. The handsome colonel at once began to lay siege to this girl's heart, and was the less loth to do so because it was rumoured that old Robinson had saved a considerable sum during a long lifetime.

  20. Their knowledge of him was founded upon rumoured stories, repeated rather privately among themselves.

  21. You say that because you have no doubt heard that it has been rumoured that I have a depraved old man's fancy for you and that I have always hoped to marry you.

  22. Nevertheless it was rumoured that she intended to marry some foreign prince who would enforce her rights to the English throne.

  23. When therefore it was rumoured that Henry VIII.

  24. It is rumoured that hot and blasphemous Australian Quartermaster-Sergeants rode back that evening to retrieve some of their property.

  25. If the fame of the riches of these countries had been rumoured abroad before, it was now, on account of the gold we had sent, the more so; it soon spread through all the islands, and the whole of Spain.

  26. So the emotion was great when it was rumoured that flour ran short in Chevregny, for Chevregny fed two other hamlets and a great many refugees.

  27. It was rumoured that the murderer had been sheltered by the Afghan Governor of the Chikansur district, who goes by the grand name of Akhunzada, or "The great man of a high family.

  28. He came of an old family, and his rumoured engagement to Lady Violet Calcott had surprised no one.

  29. It was rumoured that the Hall was already mortgaged beyond its value, and it was common knowledge that the Colonel's debts were accumulating with alarming rapidity.

  30. In June, 1777, it was rumoured about Washington's camp that a Frenchman named Ducoudray was about to be appointed to the chief command of the artillery, with the rank of major-general.

  31. Grandmother was dead, and it was rumoured Mr. Audré had perished in a fishing excursion off the Labrador coast.

  32. It was rumoured that Ann Jamblin had announced her intention to take up a missionary career.

  33. It is rumoured in Brussels that Austria is mobilising for attack!

  34. Curious that what is a secret here should be rumoured there!

  35. Some rumoured statement about a long-legged sheep.

  36. It was rumoured that bystanders had endeavoured to throw themselves into the fire to die at their side.

  37. It was rumoured that the King of Denmark intended to unite with the French in support of the revolutionists, and Renard began calmly to calculate that, should this report prove {p.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rumoured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.