Example Sentences

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Fans have been guessing about the plot of “Cursed Child” since the play was announced last summer, and preview audiences ­haven’t spoiled the surprise.

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2016

They may as well have been guessing randomly.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2012

For half a century, scholars have been guessing.

From Time Magazine Archive

“There isn’t much middle ground with you, is there? All you want is a drink of water and the answer to a question that folk have been guessing at since ... well, since forever.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

If I had started to do that, I should have been guessing now.

From Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)