Example sentences for: presumption

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

  • The phrase, for instance, makes no good sense in English; and this affords a presumption that it was borrowed from abroad.

  • The conservative Daily Telegraph said in an editorial that while Blair might have a useful role in preparing the ground for a new U.S. diplomatic effort, "anything more ambitious is pure presumption."

  • And with the assurance that savings would be invested and that there would be enough demand to make use of the economy's resources, economists could return in good conscience to the microeconomic question of how those resources would be used--and to the broad presumption that free markets, except in some specific cases, would get it right.

  • (I am accepting, for the sake of argument, the Sierra Club's presumption that it can accurately foresee what our descendants will value.

  • The judge starts with a presumption of fairness, and you have to tear that presumption down.


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