reputedly

How To Use reputedly In A Sentence

• Few details are known of the original Colossus of Rhodes, which was built by a local sculptor between 304 and 292BC and whose face was reputedly modelled on that of Alexander the Great.
• [*] Though the judge's portrait, reprinted in White Heat, suggests the very antithesis of Byronic romance, it was very likely Lord in whose arms Emily Dickinson was reputedly once seen "reclining" in the Homestead parlor by her scandalized neighbor/sister-in-law Susan Dickinson. The Woman in White
• We'd expected modern and clean, with curtains, carpets and polished samovars, happy, helpful provodniks and reputedly awful food.
• The house is reputedly haunted by a ghost, after a woman preparing to elope with her lover fell from her horse on the road near the house.
• The situation is that of the outsider meeting the pleasures of a different, reputedly splendid civilization.
• Worse, since drill-n-kill programs make an end-run around reputedly incompetent teachers, it is children in public schools -- rather than private, elitist charter schools -- that end up suffering computer disempowerment. Miguel Guhlin: Nurture Human Talents
• This is borne out by him in his famous book on Otters, Ring of Bright Water where he writes, ‘They bear as much relation to a domestic cat as a wolf does to a terrier and they are reputedly untameable.’
• Marmot meat is an acquired taste though, being reputedly strong, stringy and tough.
• Cheney and Hayman challenge the popular notion that Eocene crustal extension formed the so called Chiwaukum graben, in which the non-marine, arkosic Chumstick Formation reputedly was deposited during faulting. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
• A self-confessed soft spot for wine and women reputedly put a hasty end to his vocation, but he is still an ardent Christian.