96 examples of supposedly in sentences

Many looked askance when Larry Gardner, supposedly a second baseman, was assigned to third, but the results more than justified the move, and it made room at second for Yerkes, a player who had proved only mediocre on the other side of the diamond.

I cannot understand what actuated so many persons, supposedly rational, to sign such a ridiculous document.

Here the mnemonic system of "places," supposedly invented by Simonides, is explained obscurely.

There are probably not more than four Belgian escadrilles, or little fleets of four machines each, on the scene, while Germany's force is supposedly greater.

Then, of a sudden, with a poetic justice that is delicious, Italy turns around and humiliates the nation that was to take its place The whole comic situation resembles nothing more nearly than a supposedly defunct spouse rising from his death-bed to thrash the expectant second husband of his wife.

One of the finest epitaphs in literature is that pronounced over the supposedly dead body of Falstaff by Prince Hal"I could have better spared a better man."

But never during our stay in Versailles, a stay that included what is supposedly the gay time of the year, did we hear the sound of an instrument, orwith the one exception of the old couple, whom it would be rank flattery to term vocaliststhe note of a voice raised in song.

RPG was supposedly the worst language ever devised.

Supposedly expert tuners were constantly being called in to do things to it and nothing they did ever seemed to afford Paula any satisfaction.

They mated, and raised their young, and very likely faced on an average fewer problems than arise in modern marriages supposedly ordained in Heaven.

When my father died, he left some supposedly worthless oil stock.

He did not see her, but later, to his amazement, he stumbles upon the supposedly finished sweetheart "Liddy."

When he died, supposedly of malignant typhus, she tried to catch his disease and die with him, and her health broke so completely that she could not attend his funeral; and when she was recovered enough to visit the cemetery, she could not discover, what no man has since found out, in just what three-deep pauper's grave Mozart was buried.

Perhaps you have trusted too readily in some revelation that came years ago, supposedly from Godin truth, from the Devil.

The disappointment, the debt and despair, the pink teas and blue dinners given in cramped flats, the good fellows afraid to say no to wives whose hearts are set on being thought 'in it,' and the wives, haggard and hollow-eyed because the husbands wish to keep the pace by joining clubs that are supposedly the hall-marks of the millionnaire.

Their myths and the relics they exhibit are alike, and both treasure a sword, which is supposedly the very one connected with the story of Iphigenia.

If independency is a barrier to the essence of which it is supposedly a form, if superiority shuts us off from assimilation with popular movements and delivers us over to cliques, then these churches of ours will end in a record of shame and confusion.

As soon as a smile is supposedly wiped off, the owner of it must maintain a perfectly sober expression.

Moreover, in spite of being a reformer he was nobody's fool, and when the other reformers who were fools got promptly fired out of office he had been reappointed by a supposedly crooked boss simply because, as the boss said, he had made a hell of a good judge and they needed somebody with brains here and there to throw a front.

So, we found the supposedly excitable French digging in to receive the onslaught of the supposedly phlegmatic German.

So, we found the supposedly excitable French digging in to receive the onslaught of the supposedly phlegmatic German.

responsible for the death of Ulpianus, was sent into Egypt, supposedly to govern it, but really to prevent any disturbance taking place in Rome when he met with punishment.

A school teacher of the place who instructed a number of children of good family, either under the influence of anger or through hope of gain led them all outside the wall, supposedly for some different purpose from his real one.

The matter of inspection of stores was given over to the local boards of health, supposedly experts in matters of health and sanitation, but, as it proved, ignorant of industrial conditions.

Slaves had been taught that their brain was inferior to the whites who owned them and for this reason, many parents refused to send their children to school, thinking it a waste of time and that too much learning might cause some injury to the brain of their supposedly weak-minded children.

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