Sentences with 'reportedly'
Example sentences and phrases with the word reportedly and other words derived from it.
• « In 49 BC, he dared to cross the Rubicon River into northern Italy, the legal frontier across which no Roman general was allowed to take his troops; he reportedly announced that "the die was cast" and that he and his men were now committed to take power or face total defeat. »
• « Conditions in some regions were so desperate that peasants reportedly resorted to cannibalism on occasion. »
• « In 105 CE, a high official of the imperial court in charge of manufacturing, Tsai Lun, reportedly used his expertise to produce paper by macerating hemp, tree bark and rags, from which he extracted a paste that was refined by presses into the valuable instrument on which we still write today. »
• « The Sociedad Patriótica movement was reportedly encouraged by the provincial deputies and sought to assert Saavedra's authority. »