Example sentences for: allegedly

How can you use “allegedly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • All three supermarket tabs report the end of the marriage of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, a decision the Globe says was cemented by his latest arrest, this time for allegedly having touched a woman against her will.

  • The New York Times leads with the unfolding scandal of the Brooklyn police brutality case, supporting it with a second front-page piece on the political dangers the case presents to Mayor Giuliani and with a big photo of four hulking cops standing in front of the precinct station where the abuse allegedly occurred, looking none too friendly.

  • We may also know something about how history was rewritten wholesale in the Soviet Union during those years--how the facts concerning the October Revolution were successively recast as key figures fell from favor, how the existence of Leon Trotsky was first reviled and then denied after he was forced into exile in 1927, how even such things as the invention of electric light were reattributed to Russians in the textbooks (an astonishing number of scientific breakthroughs were allegedly the work of one Popov).

  • The NFL allegedly ignored positive drug-test results.

  • The FBI located Kathleen Ann Soliah, a well-to-do doctor's wife and mother of three, through tips from viewers of America's Most Wanted . She was indicted in 1976 for allegedly placing pipe bombs under police cruisers (the bombs didn't explode).


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