Example sentences for: second-guess

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

  • There is probably no modern president, smart or dumb, who hasn't landed himself in hot water by hiring intellectuals and then failing to second-guess them.

  • The biographer of a great analyst is always tempted to prove something, to second-guess the dubious reader.

  • While we're free to second-guess his decision to fly to Martha's Vineyard, maybe we should be pondering another question: Why were the rest of us paying him to do it?

  • These charts, which failed to convince NASA officials not to launch the shuttle, were confusing--dense with invitations to second-guess, even though crucial information that would have delayed the launch was undeniably "there" (somewhere).

  • As long as the Coen brothers continue to please their audience, they have earned the right to be free of the discipline Ross imagines will spring from having studio executives second-guess their every move.


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