Sample sentences for CONJECTURE

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Definition

a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence; or the act of forming of such a conclusion or opinion

conjecture = a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence

conjecture = a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence

Whether or not he acted alone is a matter of conjecture.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln

conjecture = not known for sure — guessing or forming a conclusion based on inconclusive evidence

This account rather alarmed us, and we continued to search for him until night fell, when Elizabeth conjectured that he might have returned to the house.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

conjectured = guessed

Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew
Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.
William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

conjectures = conclusions or opinions

However, these conjectures are vague and fallible.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2

conjectures = guesses (opinions based on inconclusive evidence)

Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary?
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

conjecture = conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence

Besides, some months have elapsed since the commission of his crimes, and no one can conjecture to what place he has wandered or what region he may now inhabit.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

conjecture = guess

And although this were little better than conjecture, yet I resolved to steer my course eastward, hoping to reach the south-west coast of New Holland,
Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels

conjecture = opinion based on inconclusive evidence

There has been a great deal of conjecture about what caused such a precipitous decline.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

conjecture = forming opinions or conclusions based upon inconclusive evidence

Thou speak'st it falsely, as I love mine honour;
And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me
Which I would fain shut out.
William Shakespeare -- All's Well That Ends Well

conjectural = guessed (not known to be true)

...I busied myself in vain, unconnected conjecture.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum

conjecture = forming conclusions based on inconclusive evidence

It was a painful, but not an improbable, conjecture.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice

conjecture = conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence

My whole examination served to turn my conjecture into a certainty.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

conjecture = a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence

conjecture = form an opinion based on inconclusive evidence

To be guided by second-hand conjecture is pitiful.
Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey

conjecture = a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence

In short, I could learn nothing but that she was gone; all the rest, for eight long months, was left to conjecture.
Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility

conjecture = conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence

conjecture = think about and form an opinion based on inconclusive evidence

But this is matter only for conjecture, things having gone otherwise than he forecast.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped

conjecture = speculation (to form a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence)

conjecture = a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence

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