Supposition has 4 syllables and the stress is on the third syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | It is founded on supposition. | |
| 2. | This supposition, that the Earth is immobile, was completely untrue. | |
| 3. | That's a supposition, not a fact. | |
| 4. | Despite a flattering supposition to the contrary, people come readily to terms with power. There is little reason to think that the power of the great bankers, while they were assumed to have it, was much resented. But as the ghosts of numerous tyrants, from Julius Caesar to Benito Mussolini will testify, people are very hard on those who, having had power, lose it or are destroyed. Then anger at past arrogance is joined with contempt for the present weakness. The victim or his corpse is made to suffer all available indignities. | |
| 5. | "All this seems strange to you," continued Holmes, "because you failed at the beginning of the inquiry to grasp the importance of the single real clue which was presented to you. I had the good fortune to seize upon that, and everything which has occurred since then has served to confirm my original supposition, and, indeed, was the logical sequence of it." | |
| 6. | We imagined what might have happened, acted upon the supposition, and find ourselves justified. | |
| 7. | It would be ridiculous to want to restrain oneself from obedience to an external and foremost will only because it did not accord with prudence. For this is precisely the supposition of the government: that it allows its subjects the liberty to judge right and wrong not according to their own understandings but according to the rule of law. | |
| 8. | That's just supposition. |