Example sentences for: doubted

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

  • Sokal's paper, intentionally stripped of logic, evidence, and even meaning, was accepted for publication in the cultural studies journal Social Text . True, this was a one-time event, but it was an event so far removed from anything that could possibly occur in a legitimate academic enterprise that it converted agnostics like me, who had doubted the status of cultural studies as an intellectual discipline, into hard-core cynics with no doubt whatsoever.

  • The National Bar Association tried to discuss the minority clerk dearth with Chief Justice William Rehnquist in June, but Rehnquist said he doubted that a discussion "would serve any useful purpose."

  • Ike Skelton of Missouri and Norm Dicks of Washington scorned skeptics who had doubted the $2 billion (each!)

  • He doubted that the benefits would compensate for the time lost.

  • While their Chinese etymology may be doubted, “that these rhymes are centuries old is not to be lightly dismissed.”


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