Sentence examples for generation was supposed from inspiring English sources

As a child of the 60's, my generation was supposed to make a difference.

Our generation was supposed to be the inheritors of a "new" Northern Ireland, free from the carnage of the past.

He broke into a sheepish smile, as if to acknowledge the incompatibility of the lyrics with the conciliatory feelings his generation was supposed to hold.

At that point, Wurtzel was 26 and had everything her generation was supposed to want (long legs, long hair, rich friends, glib friends, false friends, smart remarks and a loft apartment in Greenwich Village), but she'd suffered depression for as long as she could remember (she first attempted suicide at summer camp, aged 12).

A new generation was supposed to use the London Olympics as a springboard to the senior side, but no reputations were enhanced in a desperately disappointing campaign.

The new DVD generation is supposed to offer several other sophisticated features.

Given this generation's supposed fondness for oversharing, you'd think albums as open and unflinching as Mitski's fourth would be ten-a-penny.

"This generation, the younger generation, are supposed to be apathetic, they are supposed to be not interested in politics and yet they are flocking out there to our meetings.

No-one seems any too sure whether the word "beat" as self-applied to the American Beat Generation is supposed to refer to the jazz rhythm of their lives, serve as an abbreviation of "beatific" or mean the same as it does when in "dead beat".

The second generation is supposed to be cheaper, too.

The company E Ink stated that a generation is supposed to last two years.