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Example sentences for "could guess"

  • Fatigued though he was, he reached the statues as near as he could guess, at about three in the morning.

  • But how it was to come about was more than I could guess, for their numbers far surpassed ours.

  • How the two ever could have had an understanding was more than we could guess.

  • The first quarter of the moon was all the light we had, but even at that how he made his way through the gloom of the trees was more than I could guess.

  • Godfrey looked at him for a moment, and I could guess at the surprise and suspicion in his eyes.

  • I could guess what a shock the sight of that horrible face had been!

  • But I could guess at the torrent of passionate words which poured from his lips, and at the eager light which was in his eyes!

  • I could guess what he was thinking, but he said nothing.

  • Old Master Huckaback made no answer, but (so far as I could guess) beckoned me to come to him.

  • I could guess it in his face, I could tell it in his arms, I could see it in his stride and gait, which more than all the rest betray the substance of a man.

  • I told her as nearly as I could guess; she thanked me, and then leaned back in her carriage, waiting until the horses should have rested.

  • I had heard of no intended visit, and so far as I could guess I knew of every plan which Violet and Lady Rollinson had formed.

  • For, if I could guess at the signs at all, it was megalomania.

  • Again his voice shook a little, and I could guess at the meaning behind his words.

  • For I could guess, being, after all, no fool, how bad it might be for one of so sensitive a disposition as my friend to fret his spirit in isolation.

  • Hughes, and they were soon deep in a low-toned conversation, whose subject I could guess.

  • How great a compliment that was to the mysterious unknown only I could guess!

  • I could guess what a mighty shock that had been to his self-confidence!

  • Through them I directed my way, holding eastward as nearly as I could guess, but not at all certain that I was not moving in an opposite direction.

  • I had consumed the best part of a quart, when Lindström went off to his bunk and asked if I could guess what he had hidden there.

  • And I could guess that I was not the only one of us who felt this.

  • Besides, she could guess at the interpretations that loomed in his mind; could guess at what Imogen had told him; it hardly needed his next words to let her know.

  • XV Jack did not witness the revelation to Imogen of the ominous arrival, but from her demeanor at lunch next day he could guess at how it had impressed her.

  • And as Hartley stiffens up and glares across the table at an imaginary line of doughboys I could guess that he succeeded.

  • I could guess just by the way the major glares fond at me that if he could work it he'd get me a nice, easy job mowin' the grass in No Man's Land, or some snap like that.

  • Some I could guess at, and when I couldn't I'd get him to repeat it until I worked up a hunch.

  • I don't suppose I could guess who, could I?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could guess" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but somehow; could answer; could desire; could detect; could discern; could draw; could give; could hold; could hope; could keep; could meet; could not bring himself; could not have done; could produce misleading results; could readily; could say; could see; could sleep; could succeed; could summon; could talk; could tell; could walk; empirical laws; free schools; the wilderness