Sentence examples for supposed but a from inspiring English sources

The large insula across from the Amphitheatre was not the Foro Boario (Cattle Market), as had been long supposed, but a vineyard.

This discovery led him to the conclusion that light was not a longitudinal wave as previously supposed but a transverse wave.

The private lives of geniuses are not a fault to be tolerated, as the young Proust supposed, but a resource to be extracted and packaged for public consumption.

In fact, I had recently purchased a new one, my third Saab-the most "environmental" one, I supposed, but a car nonetheless.

Almost 60 years later, Denise read the notebook and discovered that it contained not a diary, as she had always supposed, but a novel.

It was not a force, as Sir Isaac Newton had supposed, but a consequence of the distortion of space and time, conceived together in his theory as 'space-time'.

One or two were neat, I suppose, but a majority of them were uninspired".

He'll get his someday, I suppose, but a part of me was still hoping we'd rid ourselves of this show's Ramsay Snow sooner than later.

The famously contrarian Larkin described himself as "an agnostic, I suppose, but an Anglican agnostic, of course".

A mini-bereavement, I suppose; but an enormous loss, and what I'm mourning is my child, and the life we used to have together.

Larkin called himself "an agnostic, I suppose, but an Anglican agnostic, of course".