Example sentences for: supposes

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

  • But now the teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rate seems to be leveling off--reflecting, Chatterbox supposes, some hard-won equilibrium between teen-agers' greater use of contraceptives, on the one hand, and their greater disinclination to marry their high school sweethearts, on the other.

  • Prudie supposes that the calendar's rules regarding white are still operative for the old guard.

  • Prudie supposes if you're Brooke Astor, e-mail might not cut it, but the handwritten bread and butter note is starting to seem like the whalebone corset, given the modern possibilities.

  • His acknowledgements conspicuously do not include any competent economists--not a surprising thing, one supposes, for a man who describes economics as "not really a science so much as a value-laden form of prophecy."

  • The words, one supposes, were chosen from an unabridged dictionary by a parrot with a stick in its beak.


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