Example Sentences

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I hazarded a number of guesses as to where the movement, and more importantly the reaction to it, was headed.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2022

Edward Holmes does not like making predictions, but last year he hazarded a few.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 19, 2021

He hazarded that the onscreen manhunt was between seventy and eighty per cent as intense as the real thing.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 15, 2017

McKinsey hazarded a guess: anywhere between $75 billion and $100 billion a year, or between 15 and 20 percent of the Pentagon’s annual expenses.

From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2016

“We have hazarded our lives for his cause.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson