How to use "supposed" in a sentence
Sentences
"Well, you see, really, we aren't supposed to be here."
"You're not supposed to, officially."
Sala's thoughts flew to Cham - she was supposed to meet him in an hour
Tina supposed that some people would say this hotel was gross, crass, tasteless, ugly - but she loved the place because it was here that she had been given her big chance.
The experience was supposed to be good for a boy
Elliot supposed that other people might find flaws in her face
"It was supposed to build character," Tina said
It was supposed to be perfectly safe
Bill Jaborski was supposed to be one of the ten top winter-survival experts in the country
And the other adult who went along, Tom Lincoln - he was supposed to be almost as good as Bill
They weren't supposed to go into the true heart of the wilderness
Tina was supposed to arrive at six
"I'm supposed to ask you every question on this list," Vince said, shaking the folded paper at Elliot
In letters that were supposed to look as if they had been formed from rotting shroud cloth, the artist had emblazoned the title across the top of the first page, above a somber, well-detailed scene of a rain-swept graveyard
Tina continued: "You're just not the man we were supposed to see, that's all
"Who's this guy you're supposed to see?" Tom asked, frowning.
But it seems to me the most obvious thing we have to consider is that the scouts and their leaders saw something they weren't supposed to see."
"And saw something they weren't supposed to see."
"But how are we supposed to get it? From where? From whom?"
We're supposed to have heat in here tonight, not air-conditioning."
We're supposed to be testing the boy to destruction, aren't we? Then why fret about his health?"
"Bellicosti was supposed to give us the information we need to interest a topnotch reporter in the case."
What would the elder Alexander's, the famous statesmen, think if they knew he'd soiled his hands with blood? As for the fact that it was sometimes his job to order other men to kill, he supposed his family would understand
"Everything's supposed to be functioning perfectly."
They wouldn't want a lot of daily traffic coming in and out of here on a forest road that's supposed to be used only by state wildlife officers
Beside the monitor was a lighted glass plate against which the visitor was supposed to place his right hand, palm-down, within the existing outline of a hand
they're now supposed to be our new friends, but they keep developing bacteriological weapons, new and more virulent strains of viruses, because they're broke, and this is a lot cheaper than other weapons systems
No one is supposed to survive
If there's an adjoining isolation chamber, you're supposed to go into it and lock the door after yourself
'It is supposed,' I said, 'to help me to be on time.'
I remembered what Dr Haydock had said about his illness and supposed that explained it
Miss Marple's nephew, Raymond West, is supposed to be a wonderful writer
It is generally supposed that the Martians communicated by sounds and by moving their arms