Sentence examples for incorrectly guessing from inspiring English sources

I had a false start in the northwest quadrant by incorrectly guessing that the salty sea at 1 Across was the Dead Sea, not the ARAL Sea.

As Reuters noted yesterday (while incorrectly guessing Apple would pass Microsoft in profit today), the last time Apple's profits were ahead of Microsoft's was 1990.

On Monday, everyone who had incorrectly guessed what was going on before could now finally claim to be right.

In one puzzle, the clue "Feels for" was misinterpreted as GROPES, and in another, the clue "Light-headed people" was incorrectly guessed as CAUCASIANS.

Following Braid's release, he publically chastised those reviewers who had incorrectly guessed at the game's deeper meaning, saying that they had "obviously overlooked many prominent things".

He knew that Mr. Freeport was Guy Lombardo and that Eddie Murphy had Roosevelt roots, but incorrectly guessed that Execution Rock was near Jones Beach.

He was not able to push the ball downfield – save for a 30-yard touchdown to fullback Bruce Miller on a wheel route that linebacker Rocky McIntosh incorrectly guessed would be a curl in the flats – in large part because the Niners sent only three receivers on routes and kept extra guys in to pass protect.

"Wavelength?" a male student incorrectly guessed, only to be buzzed.

He believed it to be the nearest of all the "great nebulae" and based on the color and magnitude of the nebula, he incorrectly guessed that it was no more than 2,000 times the distance of Sirius.

On the board were "mom/mommy" and "mama" and Sheila's teammate Cecilia had just incorrectly guessed "nana," which is where things really seemed to go off the rails for Team Patterson, devolving into an eight-minute descent into whatever ring of hell includes basic pronunciation misunderstandings.

She incorrectly guesses Jason, who did not become the killer for the franchise until Part 2. Writer Kevin Williamson claimed his inspiration for this scene came when he asked this question in a bar while a group was playing a movie trivia quiz game.