"supposedly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His record is legendary: he supposedly fought in 500 such bouts in his life and never lost once.
- In the same manner, the U.S. government is supposedly fighting a running battle against today's drug barons and, like the Chinese, are losing heavily.
- She supposedly fought in the First Battle of Bull Run.
- To the Editor: The president's videoconference with American troops and one Iraqi soldier seems to contradict what we are supposedly fighting for in Iraq: freedom.
- That would be the 1500's and 1600's, when sculptors supposedly fought over the white blocks and bricks hauled out of Carrara's vast quarries.
- In reality, Pound is a bureaucrat trying to inflate his own importance at the expense of the cause he is supposedly fighting for.
- Hirsch, who is supposedly fighting for a job, gave a minor-league performance.
- Journalists are sent to prison for simply speaking the truth, whilst soldiers who are supposedly fighting each other exchange smuggled goods in the bar in the evening.
- Not the perverse grotesquerie we were supposedly fighting to preserve.
- Socrates supposedly fought bitterly with his wife, but that is so common a condition among marriage counselors that it is wisest to overlook it.
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