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Example sentences for "shall suppose"

  • In imitation of him, we shall suppose a similar pit of the same dimensions to be dug in the spherical mass, out of which we have supposed the earth to have been formed; only we shall call it a pyramid instead of a pit.

  • This we shall suppose to be filled with cosmic matter, and try to determine what form it would assume were it condensed into solid matter, in conformity with the law of attraction.

  • I shall suppose that by one or other of these contrivances wages could be kept above the point to which they would be brought by competition.

  • This new exportation disturbs the balance, turns the exchanges, money flows into the country (which we shall suppose to be the United States), and continues to flow until prices rise.

  • I shall suppose a tea-pot to cost a shilling, six cups and saucers two shillings and sixpence, and six pewter spoons eighteen-pence.

  • His revenue, we shall suppose, is paid him in money.

  • A particular banker lends among his customers his own promissory notes, to the extent, we shall suppose, of a hundred thousand pounds.

  • One man, we shall suppose, has more of a certain commodity than he himself has occasion for, while another has less.

  • The trader A in Edinburgh, we shall suppose, draws a bill upon B in London, payable two months after date.

  • Now, reader, the little harbor in which, if you wish it, we shall suppose we still are, is renowned for a circumstance which I feel much inclined to endeavor to explain to you.

  • The men are by this time exhausted, and, as we shall suppose it to be twelve o'clock, fasten the boat to the shore or to a tree.

  • We shall suppose one of these boats under way, and, having passed Natchez, entering upon what were the difficulties of their ascent.

  • However, we shall suppose he did; and what was the result?

  • They are not necessarily false, although not perfectly reconcilable to our own creed, which, we shall suppose, is true.

  • An army fifty thousand strong consists, we shall suppose, in equal portions of saints and sinners; and saints and sinners are all English, Irish, Scottish.

  • Twenty thousand, I shall suppose, made good their flight.

  • When he fled, there were, I shall suppose, only a hundred and sixty thousand human beings in his city of Rome.

  • The Romans, we shall suppose, have been occupied all day in witnessing mimic fights, which display the skill, but do not necessarily imperil the life, of the combatants.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    different genera; shall also; shall appear; shall break; shall build; shall certainly; shall come; shall consider; shall continue; shall deem; shall fall; shall follow; shall have the honor; shall hereafter; shall immediately; shall neither; shall now; shall produce; shall quote; shall refer; shall shortly; shall submit; shall suffice; shall think; shall touch the happy; still remember