Example sentences for: guesses

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

  • I am 79, and when I make money out of the market, it is because I watch the ticker much of the morning, study documents, make guesses, and take risks--with money that I earned myself.

  • The Post reports that during commercial breaks, while the startled Clintonites held whispered conferences, aides fanned out into the noisy parts of the arena to calm those (numbering about 200, guesses the Times ) chanting "We don't want your racist war."

  • Just when you thought it was safe to assume that we now know all we are ever likely to know about the past, someone digs another hole and unearths (literally or figuratively) some ancient artifact: one day it is a fragile scroll, found in a cave near the Dead Sea, that turns out to be pre-Biblical; the next day it is an entire terracotta army of Chinese soldiers: the next it is a skull, excavated from the Olduvai Gorge, that compels anthropologists (once again) to revise their guesses about the earliest stages of Homo sapiens sapiens vs hominids.

  • Lee guesses that it was because Woolf predicted in advance the ridicule of her male friends (and literary competitors) that she kept herself from doing so.

  • Prudie guesses she will say yes.


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