Sentence examples for guessed wrongly from inspiring English sources

In the event, the book guessed wrongly that it was another Nixon aide, John Sears.

Smith unassumingly commented that he probably would have guessed wrongly against six clubs.

It had begun with a disastrous assumption: The American-led NATO alliance guessed wrongly that Mr. Milosevic would cut his losses in Kosovo after just a few days of bombing.

So when Laszlo Kovacs was credited as working for Peter Bogdanovich on Targets (1967), film buffs guessed, wrongly, that the director was doing the camerawork under an in-joke pseudonym.

A possible reason is that the patients "guessed" the answers correctly during the initial test, but could not remember their previous answer and hence "guessed" wrongly the second time.

That, the idea goes, is because a woman who guesses wrongly that a man intends to stick around could end up raising a child alone.On looks, however, men and women make the same error.

(Cobb has made this kind of prediction before, guessing wrongly that the investigation would end by Thanksgiving or shortly after. Recent news reports suggest that Trump, perhaps influenced by Cobb, has been telling friends that he thinks Mueller will finish his work in the next few weeks).

I guessed again, wrongly.

To misjudge means to guess something wrongly.

He won a prize after a carnival barker wrongly guessed his weight at 264 pounds — four pounds too high.

The poll showed that Americans don't realize how much they agree about global warming: Despite 74percentt of Americans believing the world's temperature has been rising, respondents wrongly guessed 57percentt.