surmise

How To Use surmise In A Sentence

• As a postscript to the story, my great grandfather died a few weeks after this conversation, proving, as his wife pointed out to her daughter, that she had been correct in her surmise.
• With no news from the explorers we can only surmise their present position / where they are.
• The article is pure surmise and innuendo.
• Why he should choose to express that interval by fifty, rather than by fifty-two, weeks, may be surmised in two ways: first, because the latter phrase would be unpoetical and unmanageable; and, secondly, because he might fancy that the week of the Pagan Theseus would be more appropriately represented by a lunar quarter than by a Jewish hebdomad. Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
• With a wild surmise, 1 began to breed, generation after generation, from whichever child looked most like an insect.
• I had some right to surmise that my illness may have been merely the effect of the hot wind; and this notion was encouraged by the elasticity of my spirits, and by a strong forefeeling that much of my destined life in this world was yet to come, and yet to be fulfilled. Eothen
• I surmised that the butler did it
• And they correctly surmise that a President with other spending priorities seeks to take it away. Times, Sunday Times
• My surmise turned out to be right.
• It is mere surmise that Bosch had Brant's poem in mind when doing this painting.