Example sentences for: presumptions

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

  • I was allowed to waveAway the tray of nougat--or rather, the flies on it.Sipping, I waited for a word, a sign from the saint.I'd wanted to lie, as if underground, and watch Him dig up the sky, or stand at a riverbankAnd have the water sweep off my presumptions,Have him blow light into my changeling bones.I wanted to feel the stalk rise and the blade fall.I wanted my life's arithmetic glazed and fired.I wanted the hush, the wingstroke, the shudder.

  • Kennedy being elevated, for better or for worse, to the role of standard-bearer for a generation repulsed by America's imperial presumptions, the antagonists became symbols for opposing forces larger than either man could discern.

  • This prediction further refines the previously published TMC protein features [ 5 7 ] . The structural presumptions for the region flanked by TM6 and TM7 were somewhat ambiguous, despite the region's high conservation among all TMC proteins with a high proportion of apolar amino acids (Figure 1).

  • Edward Norton explains what the fighting in Fight Club is really about: "It's very much a metaphor for self-transforming radicalism, for the idea of directing violence inward at your own presumptions.


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