Sentence examples for guessing rightly from inspiring English sources
When Senator Henry Cabot Lodge recommended Roosevelt for assistant secretary of the Navy, McKinley made the appointment hesitantly, guessing, rightly, that the young man would not give him a minute's peace until he sent troops into battle.
An information agent knows that the battery is flat not by merely guessing rightly, but because e.g., it perceives that the red light of the low battery indicator flashing and/or that the engine does not start.
They guessed, rightly, that he was quite happy to have a fight on this territory of his own choosing and knew there were risks in doing so.
This may be the real key to his strange, almost stilted, delivery, alongside the fact that he made an early decision as an actor to wilfully disregard punctuation when reading his lines, a quirk that he guessed rightly would set him apart.
For this kind of view to yield the right results, we cannot count as 'being able to predict a process' if we merely guess rightly about its outcomes.
It is guessed that rightly his number, 21, will be retired by the Yankees.
They also guess, probably rightly, that the West will not jeopardise its new relations with Sudan for the sake of a few bombs dropped on the UN.
But Mr Assad has cannily left ISIS alone, rightly guessing it would start fighting against the more mainstream rebels, to the regime's advantage.
Her mother rightly guessed that Laurie was one of them.
In 1958, he left England for what he rightly guessed would be the more open, experimental culture of Harvard.
