supposable

Example Sentences

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There is reason to believe that many of these supposable saline combinations are not capable of being formed, which must greatly reduce the real number of neutral salts producible by nature and art.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine

They sat up all night, whispering over to each other the parts they were to act in case of various supposable difficulties.

From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

A general stampede of the boys to the stables made it supposable that he was in the midst of the gay little group rushing that way.

From Trading by Warner, Susan

"Odd, significantly odd, that in all its essential details this affair should tally so completely with the supposable case of crime given a moment before by the deformed wretch you tell me about."

From Hand and Ring by Green, Anna Katharine

“Things are necessary to us which are or will be, notwithstanding all opposition supposable in the case from us.”

From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip