Sentence examples for wrongly guessed from inspiring English sources

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

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Amazingly she dodged another bullet after wrongly guessing which side of the tunnel the train would come from.

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.

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.

I guessed again, wrongly.

I guess that's why there are some who wrongly think I'm cold and stuck up.

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).

Wrong guess.

One showed that PricewaterhouseCoopers had allowed two companies, Avon and Pinnacle Holdings, to inflate profits by wrongly accounting for consulting fees they had paid to -- you guessed it -- PricewaterhouseCoopers. Another showed that even after Enron collapsed, PNC Financial was using off-balance- sheet magic to mislead investors about its growing portfolio of bad loans.

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