Example sentences for: rumored

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

  • He has erected, at enormous expense, a European-style capital city, Yamoussoukro, in the interior of the country, and furnished it with, among other things, an embarrassingly gauche, oversized Roman Catholic basilica rumored to be larger even than St. Peter's in Vatican City--all this supposedly to serve the spiritual needs of the country's francisized Catholics, who constitute no more than 12% of the country's 11 to 12 million people.

  • Wal-Mart still won't stock "adult videos," although it no longer carries its own store editions of mainstream hits with the naughty bits edited out, as it was once rumored to do.

  • President Clinton, the Pope, the Salvation Army, and NATO are rumored to be on a list of 118.

  • In 1996, the Enquirer hired two private investigators to stake out the home of a Little Rock heiress rumored to be having an affair with Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr.

  • Speculators in status futures are rumored to be pulling out of money and getting into undervalued properties including kindness, musical talent, and short-term memory.


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