Example Sentences

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“Who could have supposed when Mr. Jefferson went out of office,” mourned North Carolina senator Nathaniel Macon in 1818, “that his principles...would so soon have become unfashionable?”

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

The new control measures, undertaken in September of 1949, were carefully planned, and few people would have supposed that any harm could result.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 3, 2017

From limiting funding used to sustain combat operations to restricting specific battlefield actions and pressuring presidents to shift military strategies, Congress has provided commanders in chief with far less latitude than readers might have supposed.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2016

The sides of his personality — sociopath and family man, scientist and killer, rational being and creature of impulse, entrepreneur and loser — are not necessarily as contradictory as we might have supposed.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2013

The new control measures undertaken in 1949 were carefully planned and few people would have supposed any harm could result.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson