Sample Sentences for
surmise
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    He paused, surveying us with the kind of wide-eyed surmise Mr. Carhart always used at this point, and then added in Mr. Carhart's urbane murmur, "Let us pray."  (source)
    surmise = formation of an opinion
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    Mariam did surmise, by the way Nana said the word, that it was an ugly, loath-some thing to be harami, like an insect, like the scurrying cockroaches Nana was always cursing and sweeping out of the kolba.  (source)
    surmise = form the opinion
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    From the moment I telephoned news of the catastrophe to West Egg village, every surmise about him, and every practical question, was referred to me.  (source)
    surmise = guess based on incomplete knowledge
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    He probably surmised that if he bided his time until August, the Teklanika would subside enough to be crossed.  (source)
    surmised = formed an opinion
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    "That is not an unnatural surmise," said Fitzwilliam, "but it is a lessening of the honour of my cousin's triumph very sadly."  (source)
    surmise = opinion to form
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    It was easy to make my further arrangements; for I was troubled with no inquiries — no surmises.  (source)
    surmises = guesses
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    rapture of so much amateur conjecturing and surmising would flush their faces as irrepressibly as blood!†  (source)
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    But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings, there was enough in the earthly make and incontestable character of the monster to strike the imagination with unwonted power.†  (source)
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    Now, the utterly unsurmised appearance of Bartleby, tenanting my law-chambers of a Sunday morning, with his cadaverously gentlemanly nonchalance, yet withal firm and self-possessed, had such a strange effect upon me, that incontinently I slunk away from my own door, and did as desired.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsurmised means not and reverses the meaning of surmised. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    It was still too dark to see, but Roy surmised from Dana's whimpering gasps that he'd been kicked in a very sensitive part of his body.  (source)
    surmised = formed an opinion
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    What imagination would have been irreverent enough to surmise that the same scorching stigma was on them both!  (source)
    surmise = conclude
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    He could hardly grasp the thing—much less try to solve it; but a hundred wild surmises came to him, a sense of impending calamity overwhelmed him.†  (source)
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    Surmising that he has no valet, and seeing that he has no secretary with a shorthand notebook and a typewriter, one meditates on how little our great burgess domesticity has been disturbed by new fashions and methods, or by the enterprise of the railway and hotel companies which sell you a Saturday to Monday of life at Folkestone as a real gentleman for two guineas, first class fares both ways included.†  (source)
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