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supposed English
Meaning supposed meaning
What does supposed mean?
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Synonyms supposed synonyms
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Topics supposed topics
What do people use supposed to talk about?
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What words indicate that something is done or made for a particular purpose?
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What words indicate that something happens on time?
Examples supposed examples
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Simple sentences
If we were supposed to talk more than listen, we would have been given two mouths and one ear.
You aren't supposed to swim here.
It's commonly supposed that all fairy tales are stories from the folk tradition, passed through the generations by storytellers since the dawn of history.
Tom apologized for not doing what he was supposed to do.
You're supposed to meet Tom in front of his hotel in about an hour.
Am I supposed to know you?
What is he supposed to look like?
What is it supposed to look like?
Where exactly is it supposed to be?
Tom is supposed to know how to do that.
I'm supposed to be in Boston next Monday.
Am I supposed to leave now?
Tom is supposed to go to Boston.
I didn't know that we weren't supposed to do that.
You students are supposed to be diligent.
Students are supposed to turn in reports at the end of the school year.
Eating too much fat is supposed to cause heart disease.
We're not supposed to indulge pets.
I can't start up my computer. What am I supposed to do?
Everybody is supposed to wear a tie at the party.
This figure is supposed to represent Marilyn Monroe, but I don't think it does her justice.
We are not supposed to drink in this theater.
Oh yeah, that's right. I was supposed to meet some friends in Shibuya at eight.
It is supposed to rain today, isn't it?
It's supposed to get colder and snow later today.
I am supposed to babysit the children tonight.
I supposed him to be rich.
You are supposed to hand in your homework by Friday.
You are not supposed to smoke at school.
You are supposed to be back by noon.
The monarch is supposed to attend the funeral.
You are supposed to hand in the homework by the end of the week.
Aren't you supposed to be at school today?
I'm looking for a man who is supposed to live here.
I'm supposed to go to New York next week.
We are supposed to take off our shoes at the entrance.
He was supposed to call her at ten.
He was supposed to come.
He is supposed to be at home today.
He is supposed to be the best doctor in the town.
Movie subtitles
They're not supposed to be in Serbia!
Just doing my part, you know, 'cause we're supposed to be a team.
The issue now is what the heck am I supposed to tell the Mission President!
Hey, come on! We're supposed to be together at all times!
How is this supposed to make things better for us?
I'm just supposed to take you back?
You're doing everything I was supposed to do! Doesn't that seem a little telling to you?!
Where am I supposed to go?!
What. what is this supposed to mean?
Mother, what exactly am I supposed to do now?
Nah, but we finally found out What we're really supposed to be doing.
Like, I'm supposed to give this to you.
Um, we were supposed to study before rounds.
We're supposed to be a team and I want to do something for her.
We were supposed to do this together.
What am I supposed to do until you wake up?
How else are you supposed to paint me as Venus?
Well look, if we can't get in his face, how are we -supposed to beat him?
If we lose our powers as cyborgs, what then? What are we supposed to do with our lives?
So we're supposed to be willing targets for this?
How are we supposed to fight against someone like that?
Weren't you supposed to fight alongside us?
What's the notary supposed to do?
Yes, your Honor. -Is it also true that in the pantomime, you use the knife frequently? And at the end of the act, you throw it with such precision that it pierces the chest of a dummy, which is supposed to represent your partner.
You're in a position of trust. You're supposed to guard the artist entrance. You left to watch the show rehearsals?
Am I supposed to be wet nurse to them woodenhead pilgrims a-crossin' the plains?
What am I supposed to do?
What is it supposed to do?
I guess I felt bad that his supposed friend was betraying him and what my brother was doing to him, but I was just trying to do him a favour.
You're supposed to trust me!
They're not meant to be together, they're not supposed to be together, but they are.
Why on earth. Mother, what exactly am I supposed to do now?
WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN?
I'M JUST TAKING YOUR FRIEND HERE FOR A LITTLE TIME-OUT SO THAT HE DON'T WANDER INTO ANYTHING. JUST DO WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO, AND HE'LL BE FINE.
I MEAN, YOU -- YOU DID IT EXACTLY WHEN YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO. YOU PUT THE MONEY BACK.
I thought you weren't supposed to wear white to a wedding.
Sure we're supposed to be wearing tuxes, dude?
That was the one that was supposed to wake him up.
News and current affairs
PRINCETON - Russian President Vladimir Putin's anointment of Alexander Medvedev to succeed him in what is supposed to be a democratic presidential election next March shows that Russia's leaders have not changed a whit.
Are we really supposed to admire and love modern monarchies, such as the British House of Windsor, even more so today, just because some new princess has been plucked from the middle class?
Much of that increase has more to do with public perceptions about supposed crime waves and ham-handed public and political responses to occasional headline-capturing murders, than any actual underlying crime rate.
But, when it comes to the era of supposed US hegemony, there has always been a lot of fiction mixed in with the facts.
But, while the US suffered costs to its reputation around the world, the supposed advantages from this for America's opponents proved illusory.
Consider high technology, where America is supposed to excel.
Third, the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is supposed to police the non-proliferation system, is shamefully underfunded.
Foreign ownership of banks was supposed to ensure their stability; it was expected that foreign banks would come to the rescue of their Argentine subsidiaries if they needed money.
Indeed, lenders are supposed to be experts on risk management and assessment, and in that sense, the onus should be on them.
Fiscal austerity was supposed to restore confidence.
Political and economic reforms over the past decade were supposed to lead the country out of chronic economic crisis.
Since politicians follow public opinion rather than lead it, it must be the public itself that demands its own survival, not elected officials who are somehow supposed to save us despite ourselves.
It's time for a pause in European integration efforts if only to avoid a complete, irreparable rupture of relations between nations that are supposed to be uniting.
This tight budget is supposed to force shake-ups in UN management.
LONDON - Public trust in financial institutions, and in the authorities that are supposed to regulate them, was an early casualty of the financial crisis.
GAZA - This was supposed to be my first year of medical school. Instead, I am stuck here in Gaza, in my father's house inside the Jabalia refugee camp, with few options and no way out.
In this sense, monarchy is a little like Islam, or the Catholic Church: all believers are supposed to be equal in the eyes of God, or the Pope, or the Emperor - hence the appeal to the poor and the marginalized.
The tests were supposed to reveal the true conditions of banks saddled with unaudited toxic assets in housing loans and financial derivatives.
From the outset, the TPP's supposed openness has been wholly misleading.
Indeed, the most famous free-speech cases - the ones that are supposed to showcase America's strength and moral power - involve the protection of speech that most decent people hate.
Some of Mitt Romney's advisers seemed taken aback by Obama's victory: Wasn't the election supposed to be about economics?
GAZA - This was supposed to be my first year of medical school.
The introduction of the euro was supposed to spur the less dynamic and competitive European economies, mostly in the south of the continent, to drive down their costs and increase their competitiveness.
Back then, that debacle seemed to presage a broader US withdrawal from Asia, with a war-weary American public seeking the supposed comforts of isolationism.
Bankers were once supposed to know every borrower, and to make case-by-case lending decisions.