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Example sentences for: supposedly

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

The supposedly timid Davis pushed through bold HMO reform, an aggressive assault-weapon ban, mandatory high-school exit exams, and peer review for teachers.
By the late eighteenth century, the Catholic Church forbade additional burials inside churches, supposedly for public health reasons, but the ricos, the well-to-do, continued to buy their way into the churches.
Republicans, more creatively, are trying to frighten small children with the supposedly terrifying specter of "Speaker Gephardt."
It's particularly strange that the supposedly media-savvy Gabler didn't acknowledge in his piece the popular-kid killing classic Heathers and its less acute echo Jawbreaker . Even the mild snarkiness of MTV's Daria should have put Gabler, for whom mass entertainment is the only important reality, on notice that high schools are communities that are hardly tolerant, accepting, or even rational.
It is the premium in the form of a lower rate of return that investors are willing to pay to own bonds or notes rather than stocks, supposedly because stocks are a great deal more dangerous.