Sentence examples for shrewd guess from inspiring English sources

"If we know the diameter of a column base", lead researcher Dr Cawthorne said, "we can have a pretty shrewd guess what the column itself was like".

"You can have a pretty shrewd guess there will be substantially less money going back into those departments than there was before," he says.

Shrewd guesses were made by some of the 'civvies' present, but wisely our Southwick House party remained silent.

Huxley's greatest novel, Brave New World, is a far shrewder guess at the likely shape of a future tyranny than Orwell's vision of Stalinist terror in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Though there have been few security breaches involving anything more than some shrewd password guessing, just the idea of hosting highly sensitive information on offsite, shared servers is not terribly comforting to most IT executives.

Where information is lacking, Wills provides shrewd and judicious guesses.

Jimmy is shrewd, but also sloppy, and Mr. Rockwell keeps us guessing about how much of his callowness is a con.

His book is not a biography, but its guesses about the inner life of an impersonal man are shrewd.

My guess is that the publisher intends to market this biography to American Muslims, and that's probably a shrewd business move.

Charlie was shrewd.

But Pleble was shrewd.