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How to use guesswork in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Guesswork means an estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information. Example: “There's a lot of guesswork involved.”

Examples of guesswork by meaning

nounAn estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.

  • By a careful study of the figure we might suspect that when the rectangle becomes a square its area would be the greatest, but this would at best be mere guesswork.1911, William Anthony Granville, Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus

More sentences with guesswork

  • There's a lot of guesswork involved.From the entry work
  • And his hope is to take the guesswork out of living right with God.2020, Barbour Staff (compiler), Daily Wisdom for Women, page 24. From the entry bottom-line
  • We've gathered three weeks' worth of seagan menus to take the guesswork out of eating well.2016, Amy Cramer, Lisa McComsey, Seagan Eating, page 54. From the entry seagan
  • Animal sign is the key to eliminating guesswork when setting your traps.2015, Dave Canterbury, Advanced Bushcraft: An Expert Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival, page 127. From the entry sign
  • Until now, telling the tyrant-lizard kings from their queens has been pure guesswork.2005, New Scientist, page 9. From the entry Tyrannosaurus regina
  • In fact, the dating of pre-Columbian Andean cultures was largely a matter of guesswork.1961, Margaret A. Towle, The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry pre-Columbian
  • In Medawar's own terms they describe the 'checkwork' rather than giving the wider picture of 'guesswork and checkwork' .2012, Robin Millar ·, Doing Science, page 142. From the entry checkwork
  • This system takes out all the guesswork, when for example, a mistrip occurs and the drill has to be tripped in a second time.1980, British Power Farmer and Agricultural Engineer - Volume 59, page 97. From the entry mistrip
  • Some in the ‘sphere seem to think a reliance on evo-psych is some form of blind faith at worst; some sort of creative, purpose-built guesswork at best.2015 June 9, Rollo Tomassi, “In Defense of Evo-Psych”, in The Rational Male. From the entry evo-psych
  • Buildings also were more engineered in the sense that thermal, ventilating and lighting provision were the subject of calculation and mechanical plant rather than hit-or-miss guesswork.1996, Christopher G. Powell, The British Building Industry Since 1800: An Economic History, page 205. From the entry engineered

Meaning of guesswork

  1. noun An estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.

Full definition of guesswork

Questions about guesswork in a sentence

How do you use guesswork in a sentence?
Guesswork is used as a noun. For example: “There's a lot of guesswork involved.”
What is a short sentence with guesswork?
“There's a lot of guesswork involved.”
What does guesswork mean?
Guesswork means an estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.

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