Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: surmised
IPA transcription: [sɚm'aɪzd]
Pronunciations of surmised
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Usage examples
  • Dick surmised that this bed would be assigned to him.
  • They had already surmised the reason why the Indians had thus set a trap for them.
  • Olbers at once surmised that these two planets were fragments of a larger one, and kept an eager look out for other fragments.
  • This rope is his guide by which he comes for his daily water!" surmised Manstin, who knew all the peculiar contrivances of the people.
  • When men drifted in to trade dust and nuggets for picks and flour, the fur-traders smiled, and rightly surmised that the California diggings were playing out.
  • He surmised also that gravity was the force concerned, and asserted that the path of an ordinary projectile was an ellipse, like the path of a planet--which is quite right.
  • The creature was considerably less than half as tall as the green Martian warriors, and from my balcony I could see that it walked erect upon two legs and surmised that it was some new and strange Martian monstrosity with which I had not as yet become acquainted.
  • Dick saw a line of trees which he surmised marked the course of the Antietam, and he saw small detachments of cavalry which he knew were watching the advance of the Army of the Potomac. Their purpose convinced him that Lee had not retreated across the Potomac, but that he would fight and surely lose.
  • Others surmised the presence of some foreign and unknown body, some comet, or some still more distant planet perhaps, whose gravitative attraction for Uranus was the cause of the whole difficulty--some perturbations, in fact, which had not been taken into account because of our ignorance of the existence of the body which caused them.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Iapetus (moon), License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Peter Jennings, License CC BY-SA 4.0