How to Use supposedly in a Sentence

supposedly

adverb

• At the top of the page, a counter supposedly shows the dwindling number of iPhones still available.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2023
• They had supposedly been submerged in the lake for six months.
  — Richard Schlesinger, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2024
• The Bravo host didn't carefully study the email address that supposedly was from the bank, which could have been a clue to the fraud.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2024
• None of this has much to do with Matthew Inman’s card game of the same title, which this show is supposedly adapting.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 July 2024
• The return of the festival was supposedly smaller than in the past.
  — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2023
• The rap squat came from prison subculture and was first called the prison pose, supposedly a crouch meant to look menacing.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
• So why don’t these millions of supposedly self-loathing motorists make the jump?
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
• In their opinion, some kits that were supposedly for older kids could’ve been used by younger kids as well.
  — Julia Pelly, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023
• In the clip, Cuoco attempts to replicate a supposedly easy-to-do style while Greenberg films her in the mirror.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
• Biden has not used the tools supposedly available to compel Israel to stand down.
  — Steven Simon, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2024
• In the 1930s, entrepreneur Buck Brady opened a nightclub on the land called the Primrose Club, which was supposedly taken over and run by the mob.
  — Killian Baarlaer, The Enquirer, 15 Aug. 2024
• Three days before the event, the fire extinguishers were taken out of the ward by order of the head of the prison system, supposedly to be refilled.
  — Karl Vick, TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
• The user that supposedly posted the news on X, @GlobalPressCorp, is not an active account.
  — Isabel C. Morales, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024
• Some of the fault for that is due to the decision to add an onstage crew, supposedly filming a documentary about the show and whose fierce close-up work is splashed on the screen.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
• Combs supposedly emerged nude and began to both vaginally and anally rape her, as Graves screamed in pain.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 24 Sep. 2024
• There was a rumor about a person in the neighborhood who supposedly knew the identity of the shooter.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• The most persistent myth about the movie involves a Munchkin actor who supposedly died by suicide on set.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
• This crossbow was supposedly seen in police body cam footage on the night of the murders, according to the seller, ABC4 reports.
  — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
• This is a party that supposedly stands for fair elections?
  — Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 27 July 2024
• After that, the map includes states that supposedly have tea lovers of both persuasions – sweet tea drinkers and those who drink unsweetened iced tea.
  — Leah Ingram, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2024
• Part of the brothers' motivation for killing their parents was to free Erik from the abuse, which Kitty supposedly knew about and did nothing to stop.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
• Miko goes to New York for the summer, supposedly for work, and Ben sets about trying to sleep with a blonde, any blonde, feigning interest in the lives of several prospects.
  — Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• Since the series was announced in 2021, Glover has released Atlanta’s third and fourth seasons, which will supposedly be its last.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 7 Dec. 2023
• Scott, the old pro, knows how to give these scenes a vicious vitality that overcomes any thoughts about how the Romans supposedly got live sharks in the water.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
• Victoria’s Secret, meanwhile, was meant for the woman who that kind of guy supposedly wanted to marry, or, at the very least, jerk off to.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 14 July 2022
• Plus, this method is supposedly less painful than ripping hot wax off your underarms or crotch.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 25 July 2024
• Lawyers for Miller have countered, saying the raid was justified by reports of a 2016 death supposedly linked to Miller's products.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 29 Feb. 2024
• On Tinder, a woman asked out on an ice cream date turned it down for being supposedly too juvenile for her 26-year-old self.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 21 July 2023
• Yeah, a lot of them were supposedly just thrown away, or burned, even, for heat by the workmen, these 18th-century workmen who had first uncovered them.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
• But much of that later timeline is for the second volume, supposedly arriving next year.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024