Sentence examples for supposedly would from inspiring English sources

It was lavishly praised; the waiters supposedly would dive right into the water to catch dinner.

The motive, apart from pay-offs, supposedly would be to end turf wars by promoting one cartel's hegemony.

In the experiment, subjects first spun a wheel that supposedly would stop at random on any number between 1 and 100.

The shock that supposedly would sting Enos, the space-monkey, only when he pulled the wrong lever is an example of what is known in cybernetics as "feedback".

The chemists of that time were alchemists, and their pursuit was mainly a search for the philosopher's stone, which supposedly would turn common metals into gold.

The newspapers were filled with gloomy warnings that China may no longer be willing to buy up US debt, which supposedly would have dire consequences for us all.

Whether judged by the leapfrog that states are playing with the contest calendar, the quicksilver rise and fall of candidates du jour, the showy dithering of supposedly would-be contenders or the dogged persistence of also-rans sprinting nowhere fast, this has been an epically silly primary season, and (cue the Carpenters) we've only just begun.

"The Russians told us to soak our feet in buckets of vodka at halftime — supposedly it would keep us warm.

I live and cycle in Houston, a relatively flat terrain, where supposedly it would be O.K. not to require a helmet.

I started by loading up my phone with a variety of apps which - supposedly - would help me get by without cash or even cards.

I think a better name from the ones Microsoft was supposedly considering would have been Sift.