Sentence examples for supposedly referring from inspiring English sources

The story goes that train riders' luggage tags were stamped with BENNY, but the lack of evidence suggests this is as mythical as the canard that posh originally stood for "Port Out, Starboard Home" (supposedly referring to the most desirable cabins on passenger ships between Britain and India).

The letters supposedly referring to the case were sold at Bonham's auction house in London in 2002.

Other notes in the booklet, dealing with life and death reflections, seem to be more personal, like a message typed on one of the last pages, supposedly referring to the loss of a loved one ("I waited all day.

My dad made much of the name, which supposedly refers to a fisherman cursing his wife's terrible cooking.

"Change" supposedly refers to the realization that a studio, in this case a wobbly 20th Century Fox, should never take on such a huge project without financial partners.

Tres Pasitos is the strongest of the pesticides: its name, which means Three Little Steps, supposedly refers to all that mice can manage after eating it.

In 1975, digs in Syria found cuneiform tables that supposedly referred to the existence of a city known as Sodom, or something like that -- though not all scholars agreed.

Jews have bitterly protested John Paul's recognition of Pius, who over history's longest papacy confined Jews to Rome's ghetto, condoned the church seizure of a Jewish-born boy and supposedly referred to Jews themselves as "dogs".

The song supposedly referred to the Cold War, but nobody in the United States knew this at the time, as few Americans speak German, and those that do keep it under their hat.

Blindness is the dizzying highpoint, a pulverising groove that builds to a keyboard-sozzled climax in a blaze of splattered invective and baffling one-liners which supposedly refer to David Blunkett, state control and masonic rituals.

Of the 19 cases supposedly referred, records could be found for only nine.