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"Surmise" in a Sentence (16 examples)
The tragedy has been so uncommon, so complete and of such personal importance to so many people, that we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis.
Those are the main facts of the case, stripped of all surmise, and stated as baldly as possible.
"What do you think of my theory?" "It is all surmise."
We see in nature the cycling or spiralling of things. Subsequently, we can surmise that a being may have such cycling or spiralling of life and death by some element, soul or consciousness stream, of that being. My father, before his death, told me that he would be reborn through "mind" transmigration in a new body, a baby, in a different world, "planet," he clarified. There, he would live a new life. Everywhere in nature, there is cycling or spiralling.
The bizarre movie Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, directed by Zacharias Kunuk, fired up my imagination of the cold Inuit life in the snowy Arctic. I surmise that the Inuit have a Japanesque culture.
Maybe, it's a crazy idea that there is God or are gods and there are aliens. I surmise that God is or the gods are not like persons. And hierarchically, there are aliens below. Aliens have a more immediate controlling influence over my life. God could be everything or everything and beyond it, respectively pantheism and panentheism. God could be more like space, light, or wind. Meanwhile, aliens could be sentient beings, more like people.
I am interested in the outlook of science fiction in India. I know that many Western sci-fi movies are dubbed in Hindi. I have watched, without much comprehension, two Hindi-dubbed sci-fi movies, Prometheus (2012) and The Time Machine (2002), which I have previously viewed in English. I surmise then that Hindi has sufficient technical vocabulary. I have read that there are domestic productions of sci-fi, of at least literature, in India.
Today, about 2% of the Philippines are Buddhists, but I surmise that it may be a great underestimation. I surmise also that many of these Buddhists are of the Chinese ethnic persuasion. There are reportedly also Syncretists who worship both Buddhist and Roman Catholic elements.
surmises of jealousy or of envy
This opinion, however, is merely a surmise, which may or may not be the case.
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But ſurely no Man whatſoever ought in Justice or good Manners to be charged with Principles he actually diſowns, unleſs his Practices do openly and without the leaſt Room for Doubt, contradict his Profeſſion: Not upon ſmall Surmiſes, or becauſe he has the Miſfortune to have Ill Men ſometimes agree with him in a few general Sentiments.
The meeting had been devoid of incident. No word had been said to give me anything to think about, and any surmises I might make were unwarranted. I was intrigued.
In short, the chances of the Princes Street terminal's survival seem unsure, though at the moment these views are no more than surmise.
My Thought, whoſe Murther yet is but fantaſticall, / Shakes ſo my ſingle ſtate of Man, / That Function is ſmother'd in ſurmiſe, / And nothing is, but what is not.
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies / When a new planet swims into his ken; / Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes / He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men / Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— / Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
If, as I surmise, you see the ladies this evening, you might mention my intended visit.
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