How To Use Guess In A Sentence

One can only guess at the research and detective work that has gone into the bald details recorded for each piece.
My guess is they were either swapping football stickers or comparing notes on how to look after successful women. The Sun
In this regard, I offer a few guesses about some general directions in which statistical physics may change.
I guess the suddenness of it all kind of numbed me to it a little. Casting clues and possible solutions
A bit of background about me - I do hardware, firmware, and driver development by profession, so I think I'm qualified to provide a guess as to what and where it went wrong: for any computer, there's the initial "bootloader," which is what we commonly refer to as Discussions: Message List - root

I guess she would rather I expressed myself in a more ladylike manner, or at least a little more eloquently.
If the stylist is still alive and well today, it’s only because Ms. Houston hadn’t also tripped over the long train on that gown, but I’d venture a guess that his or her days of working for Whitney are Oh-Oh-Ooooh-Oh-ver. Whitney Houston wardrobe malfunction: Yikes, she really didn't need that... | EW.com
Clearly the megalosaurus in the opening passage of Bleak House is a flight of hyperbolic fancy (inspired, I would guess, by the papier-mâché dinosaurs constructed for the Crystal Palace Exhibition, a couple of years earlier).
You've probably guessed that his Mum was the one who died unhappy and unmourned a couple of years back.
No, but they more or less remained together, I hate to use the word ideologically, but I guess for want of a better word, they seemed to always react, more or less, the same way to political situations and to political candidates 'platforms. Oral History Interview with Lindy Boggs, January 31, 1974. Interview A-0082. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
I guess I'm essentially a kind of deist of some kind as well. There Is A God
I was telling him about last night and he described me as sounding languid and louche, and consequently correctly guessed that I was still in bed.
I guess you can get the smart person award for the person who got that little denotation!
I do not know if that linkage can be proven, but my guess is the fee was the result of a number of actions that Harding took, over a period of years, which were favorable to Hevesi. Henry J. Stern: Betrayal of the Public Trust
Well, I guess we can scratch that idea.
This is just a guess, mind. Times, Sunday Times
My guess would be that her headmaster born in the late 16th century, no doubt, when men were men and rules were rules rapped her on her noggin for inelegance at some crucial point in her development, and voilà! Author! Author! » 2010 » March
As you might have guessed we are not talking about an all-too-human Dana Plato, Todd Bridges or Corey-of-your-choice, but a fellow member of our family Hominidae who diverged from our species 6 million years ago. Warren Holstein: Monkey Business: Travis the Celebrity Chimpanzee Attacks!!!
I saw wheel tracks to the right, crossed by similar tracks back again to the road, and I guessed that the postilion had intended to drive his horses down the byroad, but having found it too rough or too narrow had been compelled to return, even at the cost of loss of time in backing. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
I guess the answer is to get this information out there so people can't ignore it any more.
If you haven't guessed by now the answer is located here, gentle readers, and I do beg thy pardon if I spake not in troth.
And I won't venture a guess as to how many customers will be as thrilled about the integrated air ionizer as to prefer this model to others…
Sound symbolism means that we can often guess the meaning of a word from its sound.
My best guess is if negotiations haven't got anywhere by the end of Eid, in other words towards the end of this week, then I think there will be a battle for Sirte, but not yet. ruled out the extradition of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi . The Guardian World News
You'll never guess who I met in town.
I guess digging into a tub of chocolate ice cream will be good.
Guess it would have been OK if the discombobulated old drunk had skittled some kid on a zebra crossing.
I guess the term webzine is much broader then I thought.
You can always second-guess yourself, and wonder if you made the right choices.
I guess the term for that is "social networking," but I remain more interested in the social than the networking, and blogging under a pseudonym six or eight times a month in a personal essayish vein isn't exactly the fast lane to fame and influence. Archive 2009-05-01
Which is not to say that the courts would hold the dispute justiciable – my guess is that they would still be reluctant to do so. The Volokh Conspiracy » Would “Deem & Pass” Survive Judicial Review?
But hey, I guess if we are operating under the assumption that soccer fans revel in unfairness at the hands of a central, arbitrary power, they they will probably love this change. The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right:
If I am guessing right, this might just end up coming back to me in 'karma' fashion. Should I bring them or not?
Now I would be guessing, but is it to do with the generally shorter timescales between the beginning of the proceedings and a hearing date arriving?
I guess my subconscious is trying to tell me something, LOL! Twilight Lexicon » Robert Pattinson Needs Your Support
He pauses, shakes his head, then boisterously proclaims, ‘Aw, gee whiz, I guess that means the hot dogs are on me, gang!’
By the glimmer of light lent me, I can but guess greatness and descry vagueness. The Kempton-Wace Letters
I will guess that the hypothesis is that the Earth enters a deglaciation period because of orbital parameters deglaciation occurs when the northern hemisphere winter is extra-cold and the northern hemisphere summer is extra-warm. "Crisis = opportunity + danger."
Orange is guessing that news will be a tempting way of getting users to pay premium prices for data downloads.
I guess his girlfriend has given him the gate.
Now astrophysicists have put a best - guess upper limit on the mass of the neutrino.
The blini of ground beef wrapped in a thin crêpe disappeared before I could get a taste of it, so I guess that means it must have been good, right?
It even implies that it's impossible to second-guess myself, yet I do it anyway!
I guess Michael Powell has been lurking on some of these community WiFi mailing lists.
The third, guess what, insects, no, the water bug, is not right, what ah, you say that the silence Haw.
I guess this reading room to contain five thousand books.
Not a coincidence is my guess, but no one should confuse causation and correlation. Discourse.net: Perspective
The whole place was a riot of different voices and accents - I guessed the huge variety was due to so many different floors intermingling, all with their own fashions and traditions.
Uh, yeah, I guess so.
I guess I'll mosey on down to the store now.
We are then asked to guess her bra size from a number of options.
It's approaching the top of the hour and the polls will be closing in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C. None of the news organizations did what we call the exit polling in Washington, D.C. As a result, we're not going to be able to project a winner based on anything other than guesswork right now. CNN Transcript Feb 12, 2008
Well, I just stop I guess" the narcotized looking Boyle warbled almost incoherently. Melody Breyer-Grell: My Issue With Susan Boyle
If I might hazard a guess, I'd say she was about 30.
Sorry, but I guessed the bait-and-switch just when the second interpolation about cobra flowers hit in. CONSUMING • by Krystyna Smallman
I guess I got all bigheaded (or rested on my laurels, or something). I’m seeing a trend | clusterflock
With the caveat that I'd have absolutely no chance of knowing much about the American avifauna, my guess would be a turnstone Arenaria sp. What is this bird?
In the meantime, I guess I'll just revel in my stickability, and occasionally I'll keep posting.
I guess that proves he’s an impostor, or that public funding is worse than the bankroll from the utilities. Waldo Jaquith - Patrick Michaels: appointed by…nobody?
But the nature of research is such that the results cannot be anticipated, so predicting what the next major advancements will be is really informed guesswork.
Sure it's what the Trib called the "bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics" but, hey, I guess that "kumbaya" attack goes by the wayside. Obama Responds To Bill's Reference To Jesse Jackson
On the other hand, I feel so clearly a certain nearness, spiritually and psychologically, to Henry Stuartwell, I guess there is even an emotional counterpart, too. Sonny Brewer - An interview with author
He guessed that the original cutting stylus was defective and so he tried a custom-made reproducing stylus, instead of the usual conical or elliptical styli.
That's pretty precise for a wild guess. Times, Sunday Times
Translating hints into statements and guessing at reservations, I would say that the French fall very short of admiration of the way in which our higher officers set about their work, they are disagreeably impressed by a general want of sedulousness and close method in our leading. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war
Save for the line from Shakespeare and the terms from the episode, I guess the rest of the verse is a series original (is it?). Eden of the East – What mystery dost thou holdeth? « Undercover
I guess you're more of a stick your fingers in your ear and repeat yourself over and over "arguer". Buffalo Pundit
Have a guess from which one all the stick and threats come from?? on September 27, 2007 at 11: 31 am | Reply timbo Blood Red Shoes « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The larger fish were steelhead and salmon of somewhere between five and ten pounds at a guess.
If you want to mingle with celebs and people who think they are all that, then I guess this is the place to be.
Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door. Jerry Seinfeld
If my guess is correct then your problem could be related to ageing or some other cause.
I guess his being shot by a left winger is some kind of karma. Think Progress » Despite Claiming That She Never Called Obama ‘Anti-American,’ Bachmann Now Brags About How She Did
And I guess we'll just order pizza and breadsticks for dinner.
Well, I guess it's nice to know I've always lived in hexed places and Eric didn't put me there. * cheesey grin* Does it fit? October 18th, 2001
Beats me, but I guess it means a figure of that stature and not, as you say, someone who invented a genre out of his own protean imagination and virtuosity, all of which is just so alien to the idea of electronica to begin with. Hamster; Dance – The Bleat.
She guessed that was pretty much what Josh was seeing in her peepers too.
` ` The shirra sent for his clerk, and as the lad is rather light o the tongue, I fand it was for drawing a warrant to apprehend you --- I thought it had been on a fugie warrant for debt; for a 'body kens the laird likes naebody to pit his hand in his pouch --- But now I may haud my tongue, for I see the M ` Intyre lad and Mr. Lesley coming up, and I guess that The Antiquary
He has imaginary friends I guess. Times, Sunday Times
The game was to guess the object which was hidden with a cloth.
If there is a bad habit I should get rid of I guess it would be to stop criticizing people.
Animal Factory should keep you guessing until the final reel.
If I had to make a guess , I'd say Sam was the youngest.
Actually now that you mention the hotwheels I used to carry pez dispensers which would often 'disappear' and then pen markers that 'smelled' - I guess smelling grape every now and then made a bad day a little better. Which one/s were you? Age 2-10
I guess words are a motherfucker, they can be great.
I guess you refer to name calling coz of the words Krusty Crash.Net Motorsports Newsfeed
Alright , since we mentioned Saks and Tiffany , I guess today's topic is stores.
I guess that's what happens when you have nearly copped it.
I guessed immediately what the problem was and grabbed a flashlight from the table where they'd been left when everybody went to bed (instead of being stowed away where they belong, hint hint), and headed down to the basement. Storm Patrol
Not that I've any issue with gaining the odd pound or two but since I'm guzzling beer and eating chips and chocolate all the time I guess things could only get worse.
Why it appears in such a sunny work I leave to better guessers.
They diagnosed cystitis and then they diagnosed nephrolithiasis & then they diagnosed Malta fever with ovarian complications & then they went all hush-hush while they diagnosed a tuberculous infection so that I couldn't possibly guess what they were testing for. Another piece of the puzzle
I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?
Perhaps their relationship cohered in an earlier version of the screenplay, but in the film it's hard to guess how.
I just have a soft spot for luxury "coupes" I guess. Autoblog
As usual, too, the world's best golfer has been second-guessed at every turn.
I didn't really need one, I just guessed there'd be mirrors in the toilet area, and I wanted to check my appearance, to see if I really did look work-shy and/or simple.
I guess it was the kind of look you would call reproachful. When Lightning Strikes
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. Richard Bach
He's my chief o 'staff ... and just guess - "he poked me in the chest" - who I've been moving heaven and earth to have as my intelligence bimbashi! Watershed
Recently we have been ‘Christmas’ but before that ‘festive season’ whilst insipid is the closest we can get to I guess? It Is Christmas in Ruralshire. Say It And Be Proud. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
It involves breakdancing, acrobats and, you guessed it, a trampoline. Times, Sunday Times
I guess now I knew where her loyalties really lay; with her libido.
The alpha males (I guess) feel obliged to rear up periodically and assert their fiefdom with a ‘roar.’
I guess you're right.
Five of you managed to guess two numbers correctly, but alas nobody got three or more right.
You'll never guess who I saw today.
I guess those peasants in Michigan will just have to settle leftovers, secondary effects: crumbs from the table of your very own economic stimulus, if you will. Matthew Yglesias » Infrastructure Spending Not Targeted to High-Unemployment States: But Should It Be?
My best guess is that it is a desperate attempt to head off the Superstorms, floods and droughts of global warming.
However, I guess you are making your own "muds" anyway when you add the neutral grays to a purer color. The Mud Debate
Guess who I bumped into today?
Guess I might as well light some fire to that fat ass, he mused, like whipping her buttocks was a monotonous task. Stealing Candy
Well, I guess there is a fair bit of fear, xenophobia and insecurity huddled away there somewhere too.
My guess is that harold has a low "dumbfound" threshold ... Sound Politics: Ballot measure policy briefs
Can you guess the height of the tree?
It's anyone's guess, then, why he leaves his instruments dormant for much of this show in favour of splenetic rants and ruthless aggression towards his increasingly miserable audience.
I guess that sort of clean-slate ingenuity is something else America has claimed for itself as time goes on; no wonder Pyotr Ilyich is a perennial honored guest. Archive 2009-07-01
If it's only for/boot I guess you could even live with one hdd, if you unmount or remount/boot readonly. I wish...
For the part he had played, the details of which were practically all rumor and guesswork, quickly leaked out, and in consequence he became a much-execrated and well-hated man. Chapter VII
I guess African Americans will not be upset by the incredibly non-sensical use of this termâ€ ¦ .. to that I say â€œThat cracker is crazeeeeeeeeeeeeeâ€ Think Progress » Memorandum To Tony Snow On The Use Of The Term ‘Tar Baby’
Someone hoodwinked my eyes and let me guess who she was.
We're quite confident about the first list but the rest are just guesstimates.
I guess you could say it's a cure for creative constipation.
Of course, the casual observer would never have guessed how little the island meant to him. TREASON KEEP
He is absolutely unaccountable and is never second guessed.
Chris, you don’t seem arrogant and decentralisation is your watchword, so I guess I’ll give the benefit of the doubt. A conversation with Ville Vesterinen about standards and the open social web | FactoryCity
While Joffe, given the right access, resources and latitude, might end up being an outside voice for change -- her background certainly suggests it -- I'd guess her hire is as much strategic adviser as it is a step toward reform. Goldman's new outsider
Then he said: "Most of the time I ' m just being me, I guess. COLDHEART CANYON
The officer being interviewed by reporters said that they wouldn't know the exact time of death until a post-mortem was performed, but their best guess was some time in the last few hours.
I guess I always assumed as a child that if I was considerate of others and reasoned things out, people would do likewise to and for me.
I guess he'll try to reach his old stomping ground to drum up support.
I'm not even going to try to "guesstimate" how many words I've written on LJ over the past six years. Entry #2,500
GUPTA: And what's your best guess as to why he is in such a debilitative neurological state? CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2006
I guess these aren’t trendy enough or an easy slap at someone (did anyone find it ironic that one year [the annual contest] C’ville said that the place for peoplewatching was at Golden Corral and in the article slammed every person in there for being an obese porker from a surrounding county and THIS year, the place to take your folks in C’ville Annual Contest was Ponderosa? The Dec. on C-Ville and The Hook at cvillenews.com
Speaking of Don, I guess you're really in love when your honey still makes your heart go pitter-patter.
There are no prizes for guessing who she was with.
In the meantime, a certain amount of guesswork appears inevitable.
Guess the guy either works at a hospital or medical center, huh?
And guess what, we saw a surfboat from Queensland in the main street… Tropic Temper
But I guess we could give you a ring whenever we practiced for like, more than five minutes.
No, I'd guess that the coin and the sign are riddle elements rather than psychological indices. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
I guess if people feel the need to sexualize their fat neighbors, though, who am I to stop them? Roseanne Archy
For whatever sophistication guess hitting may require, it's also a touchy subject.
There are no photographs of him so we can only guess at what he looked like.
So, the BBC/Media Studies quizette was a doddle (6/7, no bother: and I'm guessing I failed on the same one as Nich). Meeja studies
I guess I owe her an apology.
*thinking 2 sef: iz noname boi oar gurl? guess wii go wif neutral decor. IttiBittiKittiCommittee presents: - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. Isaac Newton
But I guess robot ass sells better than sensualized heart keyholes; more's the pity. Book Cover Smackdown! Terminal World vs. The Alchemy of Stone
I feel rather forlorn, but guess he just had to crack on. Times, Sunday Times
Manson reasoned that certain suctorial insects were the agencies through which blood was most commonly removed from the circulation and he ventured the guess that this change in the parasite that may be seen taking place on the slide under the microscope, normally takes place in the stomach of some insect that sucks man's blood. Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
If I'm guessing a-right, his forefathers were escaped bondsmen. A TIME OF WAR
Don't guess how tall she is -- fetch a tape measure.
The attempt of opponents to outguess each other by the chain of thought: I think that he thinks that I think he thinks ... will never lead to a resolution of the dilemma exemplified by the Sherlock Holmes — GAME THEORY
Look on him, Sir, -- do not you guess from that Look, and wrying of his Mouth, that you mistook the Bracelets for Diamond Rings, which he humbly begs, Madam, you would grace with your fair Hand? The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.
My guess is that the DCCC discouraged her from making the kind of strong, straightforward case on the issues she would have been good at and conned or bullied her into running a cagy, deceptive campaign. Opinion Roundup: Who Gets Credit, Rahm Or Netroots?
So I guess it is time to go and rest my head on the pillow, and let unconsciousness drown those thoughts.
Obviously, it is good to get dangerous people off the streets, but this law allowed courts to incarcerate individuals who had never been convicted of any crime, based on a guess about future dangerousness. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
Well, I guess we could kibitz a little first about the word ‘formal,’ and whether it can really be used to point to a certain sort of poem.
Now, I'm guessing you'll just back-pedal and say, ‘I was just kidding.’
We guess the academy already had as many tie-dye shirts as it could handle.
Can you guess where I've been?
We can only guess what the great Dutch genre painters really thought they were doing.
I guess I'd better get this book so I can enrich my life while livening up my daily commute!
However, I'll add a disclaimer to say that everything here is just conjecture and guesswork, if you know otherwise then let me know.
However, he ventured to guess that no one would state that they wanted to give up the search since Alex had made it blatantly obvious that every word of their vow would be broken.
What's going on here is that the stasis dermatitis ended up ulcerating on both ankles, a not unusual circumstance (I just found out that my maternal grandfather suffered from the same issue with dermatitis, and he used to end up with ulcerations constantly, so I guess I'm fortunate.) Yes, it's Twitter stuff again
I wouldn't dare to guess at her age.
It suffered somewhat from the amount that had to be cut from the book, so how they'll handle the fourth one is anyone's guess, as it'll require twice as much excision.
Just something that they had to say to make themselves feel manly, I guess. Everyday Violence
In a full parking lot at a South Los Angeles strip mall, complete with sushi, Starbucks and a beauty nail shop, not every motorist can accurately guess what's popular with car thieves these days.
Well, I guess we know which is the stronger mid-range card for Splinter Cell.
Her investment paid dividends sooner than she might have guessed. Times, Sunday Times
So now, even worms try to guess the passwords we keep on these machines.
I guess some people just need, and demand, masters and are unwilling to tolerate those who do not gladly submit to the collective as represented by the coerciveness of the state and its agents. The Volokh Conspiracy » Deadly Force in Self-Defense Constitutionally Protected, Nondeadly Force Unprotected?
Is what you say a guess or have your proof?
My guess is this: Heaven forbid that you have a cancer right now.
A guess is that octopod is a backformation from the neuter plural octopoda, the name of the order containing octopuses.
Myself, I would guesstimate the difference between the two measurements, and then err slightly on the smaller side.
Romantically, this month is anyone's guess.
I guess its not as glamorous as Montana or Alaska, but there are miles of uncrowded waters. Nominate the Best Fly Fishing State in America
BOX NYC will be holding a "massive social boxing event" tomorrow night which apparently entails poker, models, and, you guessed it smart guys, boxing**, all broadcast on ESPN2 (so let's just get this out there now-only the camera ready should read on). Dealbreaker
I am guessing that tourism overflowing from the Cancun area has helped but it is also the main commercial hub in the Yucatan peninsula and the capitol of the state of Yucatan. Noise in Merida & Progreso
I guess the question left unasked is whether the administration should be doing anything to prevent foreclosures, leaving aside the macroeconomic questions (also, the administration has been strongarming industry to renegotiate loan terms as part of the hope alliance, which i think is an awful idea, Barack Obama to his credit hasn't said a peep about preventing foreclosures). Archive 2008-03-01
The Bush administration argued that the F.D.A. was the only agency with enough expertise to regulate drug makers and that its decisions should not be second-guessed by courts.
I had to guess at the size of the batteries.
It's not worth guessing the answer, as you may lose marks.
She was shrewd enough to guess who was responsible.
Not only have I never "aced" a quiz, I generally guess wrong 3X before finally getting it right. BSNYC Road Dairy (and very short Friday Fun Quiz!)
Psychopharmacology has discovered the truth in Scott's wild guess, but Zelda is not the only hectored patient who might have been cured had she been born later.
So it is a reasonable guess that most companies will remain reluctant to undertake big new projects. Times, Sunday Times
The projections are only guesses, based on assumptions that workers will be with the company their entire careers and will receive annual raises.
I guess its obvious that if anything attracted the lightning to him, it must be the tiny little iPod and not the huge hunk of metal called a lawnmower he was holding onto. Boing Boing
History, I guess, will tell if our efforts prove enough or not for our World Cup chances.
He not only guessed wrong about the problems to which computers could be usefully applied. Infinite in All Directions
The book also describes the British "consol" bond ( "in the four percents", I guess) and shows a picture of Sir Walter AustenBlog . . . she's everywhere
My guess would be that Tom is a little off, when it comes to interpersonal relationships.
Hotels in France are regulated and starred according to price, so rates are posted up front, helping to avoid the price-comparison and guessing game you often have to play in the States.
Heinz has made a habit of posing playful questions on its ketchup bottles “Are your french fries lonely?” and the next one may be a stumper: “Guess what my bottle is made of?” A new spin on the Heinz ketchup bottle
I would guess that brilliance is a comparative issue where the rater is the lowest common denominator. Think Progress » Bush’s Fluctuating Degree of Ability

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