How to Use reputed in a Sentence

reputed

adjective
  • She was hired for her reputed talents as a manager.
  • Or the full-on ruse of a reputed wine dealer who made counterfeits in his home kitchen that passed as fancy lots.
    — Laurel Demkovich, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Her reputed charms did not include her vicious anti-Semitism.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The father was reputed to be part of Guzman’s top tier in the Sinaloa cartel.
    — Kristina Davis, latimes.com, 29 July 2017
  • Day arrests of reputed gamblers in a nationwide sports betting ring.
    — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Americans, reputed to be the most litigious people in the world, are filing far fewer lawsuits.
    — Joe Palazzolo, WSJ, 24 July 2017
  • Both schools with reputed and strong girls’ ice hockey programs, the foray into the field game seemed like a natural progression.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Whether the company—and Berns’s reputed fortune—can sustain itself long enough to see the project through is uncertain.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2021
  • However, the optics of doing a partisan event in a state so reputed for its independent thinking are not good.
    — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The reputed crime boss was allegedly wearing a pink t-shirt with a cartoon image of donuts, a black wig, silicon mask and tight jeans to conceal his identity.
    — Fox News, 4 Aug. 2019
  • There’s actual science behind the reputed power of eggs at taming the aftereffects of a night of boozing.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The father had been arrested dozens of times and was also a reputed member of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang.
    — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2017
  • In that incident, a 17-year-old reputed gang member was shot in the leg, the New York Post reported.
    — Robert Gearty, Fox News, 28 Nov. 2020
  • One night in May, a reputed marijuana dealer in York, Maine, slid into his hot tub with three other people.
    — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Vrabel’s reputed expertise comes on defense.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The 16 reputed gangsters or aspiring gangsters charged in the indictment range in age from 19 to 24.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2026
  • Aristotle’s understanding of virtue is reflected not only in his works, but in the deeds of his reputed student, Alexander the Great.
    — Kenneth Andrew Andres Leonardo, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Authorities alleged that English bought the gun with the intent to deliver it to a reputed street gang member, who as a result of a felony conviction could not legally possess a firearm.
    — Clifford Ward, Aurora Beacon-News, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Popular, an insular institution with reputed links to Opus Dei, the Roman Catholic group, was used to going its own way.
    — Edward Robinson, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2017
  • Nearby stood Jason Pagan, a 38-year-old reputed member of the Bloods street gang who had gotten out of prison six months earlier after serving time for a gun charge.
    — New York Times, 30 July 2019
  • Police charged a Staten Island man with murder Monday for the killing of the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family earlier this month.
    — Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2019
  • If Bunch leaves, or the new Regents skew more Trumpist, the Smithsonian’s reputed independence could crumble.
    — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 23 June 2026
  • Several of the reputed explanations involve World War II.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The threats were not enough to stop jurors from convicting Williams, the reputed leader of the Mac Ballers, a violent affiliate of the Bloods gang, prosecutors said.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Now, a team from StorageReview, a reputed technology media and IT testing company, has pushed the limit further than ever.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Under his leadership, the office has become a state leader for its use of red-flag laws and championed the escalation of charges against reputed fentanyl dealers linked to fatal overdoses and parents whose neglect is alleged to have caused a child’s death.
    — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
  • The last major twist in the case came in 2012, when forensic police exhumed the body of a reputed mobster from the crypt of a Roman basilica in hopes of finding Orlandi’s remains as well.
    — NBC News, 13 July 2019
  • Heber Springs Originally founded as a health resort for its reputed healing waters, Heber Springs continues to be a quintessential getaway.
    — Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 19 Jan. 2026
  • In 2012, Italian forensic police exhumed the body of a reputed mobster from the crypt of a Roman basilica in hopes of finding Orlandi’s remains as well – but the search turned up no link.
    — Fox News, 20 July 2019
  • The last major twist in the case came in 2012, when Italian forensic police exhumed the body of a reputed mobster from the crypt of a Roman basilica in hopes of finding Orlandi's remains as well.
    — Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2019

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