Sentence examples for it was commonly held from inspiring English sources

"It was commonly held," he writes, "that the underground railroad did not operate this far south".

In ancient China it was commonly held that solar eclipses occurred when a celestial dragon attacked and devoured the Sun.

It was commonly held that Charms — the hard-boiled candies that used to come with one of the meals — were harbingers of bad luck.

As the official fringe programme went to press in the spring, the EU referendum was still weeks away, it was not yet certain that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton would be the US presidential nominees, and it was commonly held that Jeremy Corbyn was unlikely to still be leading the Labour party by the summer.

Though for much of the 20th century it was commonly held that Yoakum had invented the tales of his world travels, Derrel B. DePasse, Yoakum's first biographer, determined that Yoakum had, in fact, traveled to many (though not all) of the places that he described and drew late in life.

It was commonly held to be an incurable affliction whose sufferers should be isolated from society.

It's commonly held that strategy is distinct from execution, but this is a flawed assumption.

"It is commonly held that where independent activity has ceased, there too history has ceased," he noted.

It's commonly held that "the economy, stupid," won Bill Clinton the 1992 election – but was it really the broccoli?

It is commonly held that Barcelona achieved in four years what it might have taken 40 years to plan and build if it hadn't won the Olympic bid.

It's commonly held that doughnuts came to America Manhattanano no less — with the Dutch settlers, as olykoek (oily cakes), beginning the nation's love affair with fried dough.