Sentence examples for supposedly grown from inspiring English sources

The chestnut avenue was supposedly grown from chestnuts found on ships from the Spanish Armada.

So you might expect, but his supposedly grown up sparring partner turns out to be almost as much of a booby.

The dream stuff of the title is marijuana, supposedly grown in fields outside the city, to which trucks take randomly selected pickers, blindfolded, at night.

Even today, when our eyes have supposedly grown accustomed to all manner of developments meant to shock us with their sheer incongruity, aerial photographs of the Pruitt-Igoe complex give you pause.

The AIDS rumor is a direct descendant of Edward Hooper's 1999 book, "The River," which posited the theory — since discredited — that H.I.V. emerged when an early polio vaccine supposedly grown in chimpanzee kidney cells contaminated with the simian immunodeficiency virus was tested in the Belgian Congo.

My letter from Paris was mostly a response to your comments about watching sports on television (a narrow topic, no more than a small sub-issue in the very large conversation about sports in general) and why we, supposedly grown men, would choose to fritter away an entire Sunday afternoon following the essentially meaningless activities of young athletes on distant ball fields.

Jared Mark's staging is efficient during the school days, but when these ditsy girls are supposedly grown-up, the playwright's subtle dark strokes become too obvious in this production.

There are horns that supposedly grew on people's foreheads and coins that came from people's stomachs.

Young bullies supposedly grow into sociopaths, angry drunks, wife abusers or maybe mayors of major East Coast cities.

Political conservatives in Spain and on the island were shocked by the report, and the alarmed colonial government took steps to curtail a supposedly growing rebellious sentiment.

But he detected an intriguing surrealist undertone, and Hanna struck him as "a holy fool character," he said, comparing her to innocents like E.T. and Kaspar Hauser, a 19th-century German who supposedly grew up without human contact.