How to Use presume in a Sentence

presume

verb

• The court must presume innocence until there is proof of guilt.
• This recipe presumes pork chops that are 3/4-inch thick.
  — Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2023
• That Bubba would presume to speak for the women in his life ...
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2020
• This is an in-depth film about a person many presumed had no depth at all.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• And what if the people presumed guilty from the start are allowed to be human?
  — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2024
• Just a few days after the search began, Chuck and Charley were presumed to have drowned.
  — Joseph Wilkinson New York Daily News (tns), al, 12 Apr. 2023
• Both the police and the couple themselves start to close in on the voyeur, who is presumed to be the kidnapper.
  — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
• And why is that added to the total number of cases when they are presumed?
  — oregonlive, 25 May 2020
• No one entered the classrooms, presuming that the doors were locked.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024
• Unlike the Cowboys’ presumed No. 1 rusher, Barkley hasn’t signed the tag.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 4 July 2023
• But they are presumed to be a relic of a time, more than 8,000 years ago, when the land was covered in water.
  — Aminatta Forna, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2024
• Where does that leave Eason who was presumed to be the heir apparent to Brooks?
  — Rahat Huq, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
• The sighting left the team astonished: The species has been presumed extinct in the Atlantic Ocean for more than 200 years.
  — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
• Bankers, brokers and traders may presume that these units would deal with these types of matters.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
• Of course, that presumes a genuine concern on their part.
  — Ryann Liebenthal, The New Republic, 9 May 2023
• Those who remained in the cellar were presumed to be too gravely wounded to pose a threat.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• The scenes stood in contrast to what many officials had presumed would result in a rush at the border.
  — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• Wagner Group co-founder Dmitriy Utkin is also presumed to have died in the crash, the agency said.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2023
• The Bears defense has been too inconsistent to presume the unit is going to be able to stop Rodgers this time.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 1 Jan. 2021
• Bad as these numbers are, there are two reasons to presume the true picture is even worse.
  — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022
• Their boat capsizes and they're presumed dead by their friends and the authorities.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2020
• Roughly 240 people are presumed to be among the hostages who have been held in Gaza since the terrorist attacks.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 21 Nov. 2023
• Alongside were the remains of a man presumed to have been a Roman citizen.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• They were presumed to have recently crossed the border and to have sought protection under the trees.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• The laws of our state presume that a child this age must be prosecuted in juvenile court.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2021
• Now presume a prevalence rate of just 5%, meaning there will be five true positives out of 100.
  — Jason Hanna, CNN, 6 July 2020
• Anyone born before 1957 is considered to have had measles or been exposed to it and presumed to be immune to the virus.
  — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 28 Mar. 2024
• Your book argues that white people should not presume to speak for people of color.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 July 2021
• The victim was never identified but was presumed to be Garcia.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
• The diagnosis presumes there was abuse and doesn’t allow for the possibility of other factors.
  — Elaine Aradillas, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024