How do you use Surmises in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Surmises meaning
plural of surmise
Using Surmises
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of surmise
- In the example corpus, surmises often appears in combinations such as: surmises that.
Context around Surmises
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 3 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Surmises
- In this selection, "surmises" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, efron, kirk, socrates and rendered stand out and add context to how "surmises" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include advocate he surmises rendered through and bernard glassman surmises that it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "surmises" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with surmises
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Socrates surmises that death could be two things: “annihilation” or the “passage of the soul” to another place. (18 words)
Ridley surmises that Knox's health was so poor that he was of no use for the galleys. (18 words)
Author, Potter-Efron surmises that understanding how the anger system works can lead to self-awareness and self-understanding. (19 words)
One such surmises that the word is borrowed from the Wyandot (called Huron by the French) pronunciation of the French l'anglais (meaning "the Englishman" or "the English language"), sounded as Y'an-gee. (34 words)
Ekonomou surmises that "while Gregory may have become spiritual father to a large and important segment of Constantinople's aristocracy, this relationship did not significantly advance the interests of Rome before the emperor". (33 words)
The crucible of that war forged his personal mission to be a peace advocate, he surmises — rendered through his extraordinary paintings and sculptures that mainly express his Tausug culture and social tradition. (32 words)
Example sentences (12)
This surmises that there are expectations of approximately 10,000 persons per session,” said the response which was also copied to members of the media.
Author, Potter-Efron surmises that understanding how the anger system works can lead to self-awareness and self-understanding.
Kirk surmises from what he’s learned that Austin may have flown out of the golf cart when they made a sharp turn or hit a bump in the road.
Socrates surmises that death could be two things: “annihilation” or the “passage of the soul” to another place.
The crucible of that war forged his personal mission to be a peace advocate, he surmises — rendered through his extraordinary paintings and sculptures that mainly express his Tausug culture and social tradition.
Ekonomou surmises that "while Gregory may have become spiritual father to a large and important segment of Constantinople's aristocracy, this relationship did not significantly advance the interests of Rome before the emperor".
He guesses her surmises and inferences, and informs her that his father loved his wife in his own way and was truly upset by her death.
His reasons for doing so are unknown, but the biographer Bernard Glassman surmises that it was to avoid being confused with his father.
Lipinsky surmises that this typographical technique was known in Constantinople from the 10th to 12th century and that the Venetians received it from there (p. 78).
One such surmises that the word is borrowed from the Wyandot (called Huron by the French) pronunciation of the French l'anglais (meaning "the Englishman" or "the English language"), sounded as Y'an-gee.
Ridley surmises that Knox's health was so poor that he was of no use for the galleys.
The sequel has shown that my surmises were well-founded, this proving to be the Comet we have lately observed".
Common combinations with surmises
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: