Sentence examples for Supposedly from inspiring English sources

The word "supposedly" is correct and usable in written English
It is mainly used when you're expressing doubt about the accuracy of a statement. For example: "Supposedly, the movie is going to start soon, but I don't see any sign of it beginning."

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Supposedly

adverb

As a matter of supposition; in the beliefs or according to the claims of some people.

  • People from other planets have supposedly visited Earth in flying saucers.

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Supposedly, or so I have heard, some expect my speech to pave the way for a fundamental reform of the European architecture, which will satisfy all kinds of alleged or actual British wishes.

The supposedly leaked list contained the names of Kate Winslet (Holy Smoke) and Gwyneth Paltrow (The Talented Mr Ripley) as nominees but neither appeared in the final lists.

On Thursday, Zimbabwe's state election commission admitted that nearly 305,000 people were turned away from voting and another 207,000 were "assisted voters" –" supposedly illiterate or infirm" – who needed help from polling officials to cast ballots.

Should they win next year's election, the Tories are pledged to follow a renegotiation of Britain's membership with an in/out referendum that will supposedly materialise by the end of 2017.

The result was illegal, of course, but it was also something of great value, produced cooperatively, and built in naked opposition to the expectations of in-kind reward that supposedly governed human behaviour in the capitalist age.

All kinds of things happen there – in Clarksdale, Mississippi, blues legend and in many people's eyes the father of popular music, Robert Johnson, supposedly sold his soul to the devil.

He often blames developments he dislikes on the so-called "parallel state" supposedly made up of traitors, misfits and miscreants, more often than not in league with Fethullah Gülen, an exiled former ally and fellow Islamist with whom he is now involved in a long-running feud.

Egypt's new constitution supposedly enshrines free speech, except "in times of war", a term the government has used to describe the crackdown on Islamists.

I go nuts for coconut, so this week's theme has turned the supposedly most miserable week of the year into a round-the-world trip of brilliant breakfasts, lunches and dinners.

But such supposedly supportive pieces were fingers in the dyke amid the deluge of negative articles.

The "apparent Muslim" has physical features supposedly similar to those associated with terrorism – brown skin, facial hair, turbans – but those who use the presumptive discrimination end up conflating racial and religious features.

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