Example sentences for: guessed

How can you use “guessed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Today's Papers" wants to make a clean breast of the mistake it made yesterday, when it guessed that the WSJ had not made a fuss about the Dow Corning implant settlement because the news broke after the paper went to bed.

  • His marriage, Sears guessed, would have been unsuccessful and his children would have difficulty finding themselves.

  • I had guessed correctly that his parents spoke Yiddish, and that that was the main source of his knowledge of the language.

  • Sullum cites a Harvard economist's survey in which respondents guessed that the average smoker forfeits 11.

  • Most notable is the revelation that a financial scandal involving close family friends forced Matisse to quit the experimental phase he was starting and focus on more salable works: "Spurling brushes aside all our preconceptions about the painter to reveal a personality--and a personal history--none of us had guessed at" (Richard Dorment, the New York Review of Books ). Also praised is the insight into the role Matisse's wife, Amélie, played in fostering his talents.


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