SUPPOSEDLY in a Sentence

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The new broom was supposed to improve the way the department is managed, but things have been worse than ever since she arrived.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUPPOSEDLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
supposedly
 ad.  seemingly; 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 Mitche
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)
16  For example, suppose a researcher wishes to determine the influence of military service on later civilian earnings.
17  Getting a visa isn't as simple as you might suppose.
18  "Then you and I must bid good-bye for a little while?" "I suppose so, sir."
19  It is a stone pillar set up where four roads meet: whitewashed, I suppose, to be more obvious at a distance and in darkness.
20  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.
21  I suppose I should now entertain none but fatherly feelings for you: do you think so? Come--tell me.
22  There's another sable, which is furry and related to martens, but I suppose fur trappers would be more interested in that.
23  As it can't possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I suppose.
24  I suppose, from the answer elicited, it was a reminder that one of the anathematised race was present.
25  One would hardly suppose that your eye was as steady as ever.
26  We all grow into the beautiful person that we're supposed to be.
27  I had supposed his wife a younger woman.
28  The whole conference was totally disorganized - nobody knew what they were supposed to be doing.
29  This packet is supposed to contain ten screws, but it's two short.
30  The new broom was supposed to improve the way the department is managed, but things have been worse than ever since she arrived.