guess
verb (used with object)
to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully.
had been guessing
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past perfect progressiveof guess.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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He joked that everyone had been guessing what his first song would be, as he formally opened the show by introducing Rock DJ by Robbie Williams.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2025
The price for the U.S. serial rights Churchill kept to himself, but gossips had been guessing for more than a year that his remembrances would sell for a record $1,000,000 or more.
From Time Magazine Archive
Almost from the first I had been guessing about something; and I took a chance—and I really shook up that “super-sleuth.”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Then he acknowledged that he had been guessing at it all along.”
From Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew by Robert McReynolds
For months past many hundreds of persons, enemies no less than well-wishers of the astute Colonel, had been guessing at the real object behind his rumored schemes.
From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Robert Ames Bennet
