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Example sentences for "supposedly"

Lexicographically close words:
supposable; supposably; supposal; suppose; supposed; supposer; supposes; supposest; supposeth; supposing
  1. He struck the tall yellow woman as the irresistible force strikes the supposedly immovable object of the scientists' age-old riddle, but on his side was impetus and on hers surprise.

  2. The Hotel Crofter snuggled its lesser bulk under an imposing flank of the supposedly exclusive and admittedly expensive Churchill-Fontenay.

  3. I will take the closing sentences from one of the climactic chapters, when the mood had supposedly risen to intensity, and, if ever, the prose would have been justified in rising to reinforce the emotion.

  4. To these supposedly cheerful strains the gentlemen stream into the drawing-room.

  5. Many a time I have wanted to send them things from my garden, but was afraid to do so.

  6. The moral weakling stepped off with pyramided peculation, got caught at it, and lacking moral stamina to face out squarely a grave mistake, chose the supposedly lesser line of resistance to "easy money.

  7. Favoritism bestowed where it would supposedly carry for the greatest advertising power in free life!

  8. They wanted to know if any of us supposedly sane observers noticed anything peculiar about that time.

  9. XX As Max had said, as one of their alternatives to the fracas of the West-world, the Sovs put on Telly such duels as were fought amongst their supposedly honor-conscious officer caste.

  10. He looked at Joe, evidently conscious that he had made an inordinary long speech for the supposedly taciturn Stonewall Cogswell.

  11. Phil Holland here, supposedly a Middle secretary to the Foreign Minister, actually has performed that worthy's work for several administrations.

  12. When the front had collapsed, Joe, then a captain, had held his position in the swamps while his superiors were supposedly reforming behind him, actually while they frantically tried to reach terms with the enemy.

  13. I say supposedly evil, because there are no evil days, even as there are no "holy" days.

  14. Notwithstanding that we have four supposedly inspired witnesses, the exact wording of the short superscription remains unknown.

  15. But this supposedly evil day in time came to be regarded as "holy.

  16. Cream-colored earthenware was introduced as early as 1725, supposedly by Thomas Astbury, Jr.

  17. Funds supposedly to be devoted to education, sanitation, roads, hospitals and a multitude of other developments that would improve this whole benighted area, have gone into your private pocket.

  18. Tangier was still supposedly an international zone and the French were in no position to slaughter the citizens.

  19. Supposedly the United Nations went in to help.

  20. Using these quarterstaffs brings to mind some of the other supposedly innoxious devices used by police authorities in controlling unruly demonstrations," he said.

  21. Secretly, he rather doubted the efficacy of even the supposedly most potent witchcraft.

  22. But then our friends the Russians come along and loan the same country a billion rubles at a very low interest rate and with supposedly no strings attached, to build, say, a railroad.

  23. African politicians, supposedly 'democratically' elected, had no intention of facing the possibility of giving up their individual powers by uniting with their neighbors.

  24. Among other things, it becomes increasingly clear that though some of the organizations represented here are supposedly of the Reunited Nations, actually they are dominated by Yankees.

  25. The enchantresses themselves with their philters and enthralments are supposedly fabulous.

  26. On fanciful tenets such as these the moral bigamy of Provence returned, with the difference that it enabled a lady to be as intangible to her husband as she had supposedly been to her knight.

  27. Italo was to be a servant who traveled with me to help carry the sack of wheat, for my journey to Caorle was supposedly to be for the purpose of procuring some wheat which was more abundant along the coast than inland.

  28. It is at times necessary to force a conversation from an important prisoner supposedly in possession of many valuable secrets.

  29. The Honourable Dave, standing very close to the judge and some distance from her, read in a low voice something that she could not catch--supposedly the petition.

  30. He had encountered many old friends, supposedly all of the male sex: among them--most welcome of surprises to him!

  31. If this thing is supposedly ready to fly, then I'll fly it.

  32. It had begun two years earlier, when the president himself had paid a surprise secret visit to the space complex at Baikonur, supposedly to review the Energia launch schedule.

  33. It's supposedly to raise capital for the Mino Industries Group.

  34. This was supposedly just a space-research vehicle, for godsake.

  35. The entire field of British railway operation offers many valuable and suggestive hints, even to a nation as supposedly expert in railroad operation as this.

  36. Then she asked: "Is it probable that we will make contact with this supposedly superior race in the foreseeable future?

  37. This Tanfield Court supposedly takes its name from an individual named Tanfield.

  38. In this wild Zennor (supposedly holy land) district is a witch's rock which if touched nine times at midnight reputedly brought good luck.

  39. The dotted effigy on the coins supposedly minted at St. Albans may be connoted with the curious fact that in Welsh the word alban meant a primary point.

  40. Near Stockport is Geecross, supposedly so named from "an ancient cross erected here by the Gee family".

  41. As Mr. Johnson has pointed out there is a current supposition, seemingly well based, that some of the supposedly Roman roads represent older trackways, straightened and adapted for rougher usage.

  42. Coveney is not many miles from St. Ives, Huntingdon, named supposedly after Ivo, a Persian bishop, who wandered through Europe in the seventh century.

  43. Did the unlettered peasantry of Tory Isle derive this tale from Homer, or did Homer get the story from Ogygia, a supposedly ancient name for Erin?

  44. Jesus was supposedly a Jew, his twelve apostles all Jews--how is it, then, that the only biographies of him extant are all in Greek?

  45. The Jews of Posen were charged with having bribed a poor Christian woman into stealing from the local Dominican church three hosts, which supposedly were stabbed and thrown into a pit.

  46. The Bernardine monks of Lenchitza turned the incident to good account by placing the remains of the supposedly martyred boy in their church and putting up a picture representing all the details of the murder.

  47. It was to go boldy into the saloon, ask for the rustler, first pretend I had a reply from Morton and then, when I had Snecker's ear, whisper a message supposedly from Sampson.

  48. Adelina was pained by the lapse of memory, supposedly inconsistent with the soundness of mind she had commenced to think had been restored to him.

  49. Much anxiety would have been spared the whole household, had anyone thought of investigating; but who dreams of asking for information supposedly already possessed?

  50. Then with soothing words to the supposedly dangerous animal, the Tuttle person mounted him.


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