SUPPOSEDLY in a Sentence

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275 example sentences for SUPPOSEDLY, 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. Anne is coming for a visit in March supposedly.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SUPPOSEDLY
supposedly
 ad.  believed or reputed to be the case
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  With the loss of the supposedly unconquerable position, a fresh wave of terror swept the town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  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
3  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
4  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...
5  There was no reason to suppose that he was going under an assumed name.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
6  "The decorations, I suppose, are left over from the Coronation," said Mrs. Parker.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
7  "Another scene from another play, I suppose," said Mrs. Elmhurst, referring to her programme.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
8  She'd copied out Byron, I suppose, in what was called then the Italian hand.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
9  We wore, I suppose, a great many petticoats then.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
10  There's Mr. Streatfield, going, I suppose to take the evening service.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
11  Black-mail, I suppose; an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
12  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
13  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
14  I have been a determined character in later life, and I suppose I was then.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
15  We shall have Tom Gradgrind down here presently, I suppose.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  Though taxes are supposedly inevitable, some people avoid paying taxes for years.
2  That sort of private payment, and the two-tiered medicine it implies, is becoming common in supposedly universal systems.
3  After all, people with a naturalistic worldview make philosophical inferences about the world supposedly based on the scientific evidence.
4  He was more of a victim than any of the women he supposedly offended.
5  Anne is coming for a visit in March supposedly.
6  I don't suppose for a minute that he'll agree.
7  I suppose head office expects us all to troop down to London for this meeting.
8  I suppose you'll hector me until I phone him.
9  They suppose the box to contain books.
10  I suppose some people create an idea of who they want to be, and then they live it out.
11  Let's first suppose the second defense line has been destroyed.
12  Oh well, we'll just have to cancel the holiday, I suppose.
13  I suppose I did do OK, but I'd be silly to get a big head about it.
14  I suppose the concert was OK, as these things go.
15  I suppose it's not beyond the realms of possibility.