Sentence examples for is said for from inspiring English sources
She is said, for example, to have been married to Cercylas, a wealthy man from the island of Andros.
He practised furiously, it is said for up to 12 hours a day, becoming perhaps the most technically accomplished saxophone player ever.
And no matter what is said for official consumption, appointed senators are usually disregarded until they have faced voters and actually won an election.
Bokan owned 1,500 kiosks in Yugoslavia, half of them in Belgrade - useful outlets, it is said, for Marko's cigarette racket.
Its founder named the isolated town after St. Anthony of Padua out of gratitude, it is said, for having led him and a companion — two lost things — out of the Arizona desert while they were prospecting for silver.
But often in schools or at home there's a big gap that builds up where nothing is said for many years and then children have already realised that it's a taboo thing they feel they can't ask questions about.
