Example sentences for: long-rumored

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

  • USA Today leads with President Clinton's official announcement of the long-rumored decision to keep U.S. troops in Bosnia indefinitely.

  • According to the Chronicle of Higher Education , Jordan's collaborator will be legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed, an untenured professor at New York University's law school, who swept to prominence last year with the publication of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy . Hailed as the definitive account of Jefferson's long-rumored love affair with the slave Sally Hemings, Gordon-Reed's book argues that historians should give credence to the story of Jefferson's mistress and their six children.

  • It seems that Hersh had based his project on a cache of secret papers that were said to provide the strongest evidence yet for such long-rumored Camelot dung as a prior JFK marriage, his relationship with the Mob and his agreement to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in hush money to his lover Marilyn Monroe.


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