Example sentences for: second-guessing

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

  • As I continued second-guessing my way through my initial encounter with the book, my next thought was that it must surely represent a perverse but fascinating phenomenon: a defense of Socialist Realism from the position of aesthetic conservatism.

  • These books are all works of diplomatic history, thick with policy analysis, institutional boilerplate, and unabashed second-guessing.

  • The television coverage is all too average as well: Lots of Johnny on the spots, excitedly telling what they know "at this point" (not much) and second-guessing themselves by telling TV Land which neighborhood the police are searching, then showing the neighborhood from a helicopter, then deciding that it was a boneheaded move to show where, exactly, the police are hunting (let's not let the shooter know where the cops are!)

  • Likewise, to win the psychological war, all you have to do is make your enemy second-guess his belligerence more than he thinks you're second-guessing yours.

  • There are neither restrictions on trading nor government second-guessing.


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