Example sentences for: supposedly

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

  • Among other things, he is missing the name of the judge who supposedly let Bush off, the name of the arresting officer, the police station, the date and circumstances of the arrest.

  • Bill Gates himself supposedly told his father to sell his Microsoft stock soon after the company went public and saw its shares soar to what then must have seemed like stratospheric levels.

  • This article was a good example of supposedly skeptical and revisionist garbage.

  • (For examples, see the effective but very different techniques employed by Nicholson Baker in his novel The Mezzanine , and by David Foster Wallace in the novel Infinite Jest and in the essays collected in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again .) On the other hand, the footnote as scholarly reference tool or scholarly reference weapon has never enjoyed more prominence than it does today--"each serious work of history," Grafton notes, "must now travel on an impregnably armored bottom, rather like a tank."

  • This force supposedly makes stars "self-organize" into galaxies, and inanimate molecules, into living cells.


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