Sentence examples for supposedly refers from inspiring English sources

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.

His writings and the famous Welsh folk song The Bells Of Aberdovey, which supposedly refers to the story of Cantre'r Gwaelod, have helped keep the legend alive.

The name Chidori, which means "a thousand birds" in Japanese, supposedly refers to the contrast between the flat surfaces of the leaves and their frilly edges.

The supposedly referring terms are the ones that have been retained, and the supposedly non-referring terms are those that have been dropped.

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".