8 sentences with 'supposedly'
Example sentences and phrases with the word supposedly and other words derived from it.
• « The shiatsu technique can supposedly be used to treat disorders such as migraines, insomnia, muscle fatigue and annoying back pain. »
• « Many of those primitive libations combined a supposedly therapeutic sense with a mystical/magical one to alcohol: the goddess Methe, ancient deity of drunks, has her image in the temple consecrated to Aesculapius, father of medicine educated by the centaur Chiron in the healing virtues of natural substances; »
• « Cambyses II died not long after, in 522 BCE, under somewhat mysterious circumstances - he supposedly fell on his sword while getting off his horse. »
• « The Greeks were particularly good at inflicting casualties without taking many: the Persians supposedly lost 33 men for every Athenian lost in battle (6,400 Persians killed for 192 Athenians). »
• « There were about a hundred patrician families, descendants of the men Romulus had supposedly appointed to the first senate. »
• « Soon, Octavian produced a will that Mark Antony had supposedly written ceding control of Rome to Cleopatra and her children upon his death; whether the will was authentic or not, it fitted perfectly with Octavian's publicity campaign to rally support against his former ally in Rome. »
• « Thus, most Romans believed that the Celts, conquered by Caesar centuries earlier, were capable of learning and assimilating Roman culture, but the Germans, supposedly, were not. »
• « In the eighth century, the papacy produced a document (forged, as it turned out) known as the Donation of Constantine in which the Roman emperor Constantine supposedly granted authority over the Western Roman Empire to the pope of Rome; that document was often cited by popes over the following centuries as "proof" of their authority. »