7 sentences with 'supposed'

Example sentences and phrases with the word supposed and other words derived from it.

« It was supposed to be impossible to save those nerves, but Dr. Walsh discovered a way to take advantage of the fact that they were attached to a membrane outside the prostate, and in 1982 he removed a patient's gland without damaging the nerve fiber bands. »
« I knew what the dog was supposed to do, but he didn't do it. »
« Mendez reminded them that, when they arrived in Iran, the immigration authorities were supposed to keep the original of the form they had to fill out - a white sheet - and give them a yellow copy along with their passports. »
« I had struggled with that thought many times myself, but I supposed Sarah was too little to let it cross her mind. »
« The kings were supposed to oversee the harmony of life, and yet the royal dynasty had collapsed without a replacement. This disrupted the entire Egyptian worldview. »
« Farmers lived in "closed" villages where no people were allowed to enter and existing families were not supposed to move in. »
« Symbolically, the twenty-four licensees would accompany the dictator, who was supposed to use his almost unlimited power to save Rome from whatever threatened it, then resign and return to normality. »
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