SUPPOSE in a Sentence
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275 example sentences for SUPPOSE, such as:
1. They suppose the box to contain books.
2. I suppose I am the only one in the world.
3. I suppose you'll hector me until I phone him.
4. I don't suppose for a minute that he'll agree.
5. We wore, I suppose, a great many petticoats then.
2. I suppose I am the only one in the world.
3. I suppose you'll hector me until I phone him.
4. I don't suppose for a minute that he'll agree.
5. We wore, I suppose, a great many petticoats then.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SUPPOSE
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suppose
v. require as a necessary antecedent or precondition
v. express a supposition
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 I suppose I am the only one in the world.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2 Some pragmatical seventeenth century lawyer, I suppose.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
3 I suppose he thought we had come to the hotel that he had mentioned, for he got out without another word, and followed me down the garden.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
4 There was no reason to suppose that he was going under an assumed name.
5 "The decorations, I suppose, are left over from the Coronation," said Mrs. Parker.
6 "Another scene from another play, I suppose," said Mrs. Elmhurst, referring to her programme.
7 She'd copied out Byron, I suppose, in what was called then the Italian hand.
8 We wore, I suppose, a great many petticoats then.
9 There's Mr. Streatfield, going, I suppose to take the evening service.
10 Black-mail, I suppose; an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth.
11 You might suppose, after this preface, that I am going to ask you for something dishonourable to grant.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
12 I must here speak by theory alone, saying not that which I know, but that which I suppose to be most probable.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
13 I have been a determined character in later life, and I suppose I was then.
14 We shall have Tom Gradgrind down here presently, I suppose.
15 I can only suppose that the circumstances of your early life were too unfavourable to the development of your reasoning powers, and that we began too late.
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1 I don't suppose for a minute that he'll agree.
2 I suppose head office expects us all to troop down to London for this meeting.
3 I suppose you'll hector me until I phone him.
4 They suppose the box to contain books.
5 I suppose some people create an idea of who they want to be, and then they live it out.
6 Let's first suppose the second defense line has been destroyed.
7 Oh well, we'll just have to cancel the holiday, I suppose.
8 I suppose I did do OK, but I'd be silly to get a big head about it.
9 I suppose the concert was OK, as these things go.
10 I suppose it's not beyond the realms of possibility.
11 For example, suppose a researcher wishes to determine the influence of military service on later civilian earnings.
12 Getting a visa isn't as simple as you might suppose.
13 "Then you and I must bid good-bye for a little while?" "I suppose so, sir."
14 It is a stone pillar set up where four roads meet: whitewashed, I suppose, to be more obvious at a distance and in darkness.
15 Having completed her task, she rose to draw down the blind, which she had hitherto kept up, by way, I suppose, of making the most of daylight, though dusk was now fast deepening into total obscurity.