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Example sentences for "guessed"

Lexicographically close words:
guerrilla; guerrillas; guerrilleros; guess; guesse; guesser; guessers; guesses; guessing; guesswork
  1. Come now, hadn't you better acknowledge that I have guessed your secret?

  2. She had guessed it as surely as if he had stated his plan--he still hoped to find Mary Fortune.

  3. He cast a teasing glance in the direction of Rimrock and perceived he had guessed right again.

  4. It was by following out such subtleties and closely studying the tape, that brokers like Buckbee guessed out each move in advance and were able to earn their commissions.

  5. And so de Merall did, to all outward appearance, and no one guessed how black were his thoughts.

  6. Jumping instantly to the ground, they examined her closely and guessed at the reasons of her plight.

  7. How he pined for them may be guessed from the fact that he had tried when at Nohant to make some for himself.

  8. As to what had become of her daughter, she guessed something different every day.

  9. He guessed at once what had happened, and his anger was so great that the first thing he did was to run behind the curtain and kill the bad woman who lived there.

  10. But the dog guessed this, and said to the boy: 'Friend, do not go near those people who are playing.

  11. Something exciting, of course; but she never guessed that it would be her favourite game of 'pretending.

  12. His guide guessed that it must be a will-o'-the-wisp from some swampy ground that lay there, but was careful not to betray himself by saying so lest he should be mistaken.

  13. You have guessed how poor we are and have sought to help us,' and though neither the man nor his wife saw the son enter, they felt he was somehow sitting opposite at the fire, with his hands over his face.

  14. I did not want to let it go, because I guessed what would happen.

  15. When Tai-yĆ¼ guessed the object of the handkerchief, her very soul unawares flitted from her.

  16. At bedtime, however, descrying a deep red sash, with spots like specks of blood, attached round his waist, Hsi Jen guessed more or less the truth of what must have transpired.

  17. Chia Cheng guessed his meaning, and made a sign with his eyes.

  18. I've guessed the secret of your heart, so I'll go and tell mother that as you've also attained a certain age, she should send you away.

  19. I never guessed till lately that you thought of anything else, and then I would have stopped you, but I could not.

  20. A lamentable cry reached the ships of the King's fleet; but no one guessed the cause.

  21. And because whatever Dante set head and heart and hand to he was like to accomplish, I learned later what I guessed from the beginning--that his patience had its reward.

  22. For my Simone, that should be and shall be mine, though he knows nothing and cares nothing for poetry, guessed with the crude instinct of brutish jealousy the authorship that has puzzled Florence.

  23. But I guessed then what I know since, that he found this matter at once so simple and so sacred that nothing any man could say concerning it could in any way vex him.

  24. Thereat the manner of Beatrice, albeit still courteous, grew colder, and she answered that she did not know how the doings of any friend of Vittoria's could concern her, and Vittoria knew that she guessed who the friend was.

  25. Randall guessed even at the moment that they were the council of which their conductor had named himself a member.

  26. They had wrecked so completely the matter-station and its actuating apparatus that none could ever have guessed what a mechanism of wonder the laboratory a short time before had held.

  27. Haven't you guessed by now what I'm going to do?

  28. The captain guessed what I had been doing, but the rest of the party had been too much engaged in their potations to miss me.

  29. If any of the mutineers observed him, I don't suppose they guessed what he was about.

  30. I guessed it to be no other than that of the island of Guernsey; while not a mile off, standing towards us under her topsails, was a large schooner.

  31. The French soldiers saw us all in, and then shoving to the door, they shut it with a loud bang; but as there was no sound of bolts or bars, we guessed that there were none to the door.

  32. I was sick and unfit for work, or they would have taken me likewise; but they saw that I was only a man before the mast, and guessed that I did not understand navigation.

  33. At last I met a person whom I guessed to be an Englishman.

  34. We had, indeed, guessed very nearly the truth.

  35. We could have no doubt that they were sea-lions; and from the blood which flowed from the neck of one of them, we guessed that he was the one we had seen wounded.

  36. The sergeant in command of the party pointed to it, and some of the men gave us a gentle prick with the end of their bayonets, singing out, at the same time, some words which we guessed to be a command to go up there.

  37. We guessed all the time that he knew perfectly well that Taylor was dead.

  38. We now guessed why the sharks had been accompanying us; or could they have scented the dead body of the pirate chief, which we had still on board?

  39. As this was not the usual custom of the savages, I guessed too well that it was an artful device of the chief to entrap the unwary strangers.

  40. He had watched her interest in Dale, and now guessed her depth of disappointment when she were told how the mountaineer's career had gone dashing into the black wall of ruin.

  41. He knew what difficulty, and with what yearning, she was urging her clouded eyes to do their best; and he guessed the exultation gradually creeping through her frame as she began to realize that Dale was near.

  42. As she drew near she noticed that Miss Liz's cheeks were flushed with some new excitement, and guessed she was being worried by a process of serious teasing.

  43. She wanted to laugh, and she did laugh; and, if he had guessed the reason, she might have had to use both whip and spur in a longer race than just to Bob's gate.

  44. She saw how serious it seemed, and guessed he was purposely making it so.

  45. He had guessed it at the first sound of her voice; he had felt it at the first glance of her eye; and he had known it beyond the peradventure of a doubt at the first touch of her lips.

  46. Opal guessed that the Boy was of rank, and bound to some definite course of action for political reasons.

  47. Agnes at once guessed that this poor child was deficient in intellect, and unamiable in temper.

  48. About fifty yards from where I guessed the elephants were standing, the underwood was very thick.

  49. We eagerly watched for an explanation, although, both being pretty well up to "sign," we guessed that the disturbance was caused by elephants.

  50. I guessed where the shoulders would be, and sent my bullet at them into the long grass; the animal fell over backwards, and I rushed to the spot to discover an old goat, shot directly through the heart.

  51. Though Mr. Batchgrew certainly had not guessed the relapse, she felt no desire whatever to let him have news.

  52. She's known for a week that there's been something wrong, and now she's certainly guessed there's something dreadfully wrong.

  53. Neither Krupp nor Louis guessed the inventive act of the other.

  54. Never would she have set foot inside the Imperial de Luxe had she guessed that Thomas Batchgrew was concerned in it.

  55. She faced Thomas Batchgrew, though not with a tranquillity perfectly maintained, and she still enjoyed his appreciation of her, but she did not seem to care whether he guessed that she was lying or not.

  56. She neither guessed nor cared what was the intention of Louis' shocking, impossible escapade.

  57. But he continued in the same tone-- "You made up that tale about the scullery door because you guessed I'd collared the money and you wanted to save me from being suspected.

  58. In this extremity the Queen my mother, who partly guessed the cause of my illness, omitted nothing that might serve to remove it; and, without fear of consequences, visited me frequently.

  59. Nobody else in that band could have guessed how the mind of Long Bear himself was busy with plans concerning that very matter.

  60. What was in the wagons except the drivers could only be guessed at, but riding at the side or ahead or behind them as they came towards the camping-place were six men and a boy.

  61. There was a new Watson too--you have guessed that, of course.

  62. And now, of course, the reader of this chronicle has guessed the identity of the author of the play in which William made his first appearance as a "Star.

  63. The woman thought it was a visiting-card, and guessed that doubtless it would begin with the words Monsieur or Madame.

  64. Custar dropt him, and the rest remarked that, while they hed a very helthy opinion uv him, they guessed he'd better not menshen his presence, or consider hisself a delegate.

  65. But Mr. Hinman smiled, and said quietly that he guessed there would be "a little more speaking before the close of the session.

  66. Among our enemies all is worked out, foreseen, and guessed beforehand.

  67. Then I guessed that this was the mad ensign from the battleship Orel.

  68. Evidently he had guessed what was on the other's mind.

  69. I guessed also that she--that she liked you.

  70. But I guessed that you were in love with Joyce.

  71. I said it so naturally that he never guessed I didn't know it was he.

  72. Besides, in a way he had already made them his own; he had painted them half a dozen times in sketches and studies, he had guessed their secret, learned the magic of their romance, and they were his.

  73. He guessed how terribly difficult any kind of speech must be.

  74. Well she knew that if once he guessed the cause of the whispers and glances, a horror-stricken face and flying coat-tails would be the last she would see of him.

  75. He guessed, and I don't suppose he guessed very wrong either, that there was somebody in his way.

  76. Joyce knew from her father that somebody had done so, and guessed it was that Craddock.

  77. She might have guessed more, but Charles had told her no word.

  78. Two or three laughed, but I heard the sound of feet hurrying away, and I guessed that Curtin had retired to satisfy himself.

  79. I rather guessed than heard the cause of the quarrel, and that St. Mesmin, putting into words what many had known for years and some made their advantage of, had accused Barradas of cheating.

  80. I do not suppose you have guessed who he is; so I am going to tell you.

  81. By and by we shall have a long account to give of this wonderful steward, whose name, be it known, if you have not already guessed it, is Blood.


  82. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guessed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.