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Example sentences for "speculate"

Lexicographically close words:
spectroscopically; spectrum; spects; specula; specular; speculated; speculates; speculating; speculation; speculations
  1. He tried to speculate on my Christian character.

  2. They said they had bought me to speculate on, and were not able to lose what they had paid for me.

  3. The spectators were left but little time to speculate on probabilities.

  4. I know the sacredness of married life too well to speculate irreverently on its affairs.

  5. You will understand, then, that without disloyalty to my many friends in Europe, I could not discuss with freedom the causes or the progress of the war, or speculate in detail about the future of the European problem.

  6. THE DEVIL SAID How wilt thou see and speculate into them, when thou canst not know their essence and property?

  7. THE SOUL SAID I would see and speculate into the Creatures of the World, which their Creator hath made.

  8. The real problem is: How does the merciful Creator provide for those who are sufficiently intelligent to be able to speculate on God, the soul, the future destiny of man, etc.

  9. Another set of arguments must be used to those who speculate on their daughters accomplishments in this line.

  10. Marcion did not really speculate even about the good God, yet see Tertull.

  11. They have thus occasioned modern expounders to speculate about the Gnostic speculations in a manner that is marked by still greater strangeness.

  12. It can hardly have been of a domestic nature, as they show no evidences of discoloration or wear, and we are left to speculate upon the possibility of a purely ceremonial use.

  13. How interesting is every instinct, when we speculate on their origin as an hereditary or congenital habit or produced by the selection of individuals differing slightly from their parents.

  14. How interesting do all instincts become when we speculate on their origin as hereditary habits, or as slight congenital modifications of former instincts perpetuated by the individuals so characterised having been preserved.

  15. Speculate probably in some Russian railway, or Polish mine, and lose every shilling.

  16. As he went downstairs whistling with an affected ease, and a gaiety which, he by no means felt, Undy Scott leant back in his chair, and began to speculate whether his new purchase was worth the purchase-money.

  17. They speculate upon the chances of a favorable season and a good crop safely harvested; and they speculate upon the chances of a profitable market.

  18. For many of them it would be about as wise to take borrowed money and speculate in wheat in the Chicago bucket-shops.

  19. But a well-dressed girl, who arranged for her baggage to be left at the store and then went marching along the forest trails as if she had lived there all her life, was, indeed, something to speculate over.

  20. Then Jack began to speculate on what Sophy would think of her betrothed husband tricked out in the go-to-meeting garments of the late Sam Buckle.

  21. In her preoccupation it had never once occurred to Diana to speculate on what she would find at the church, if she reached it; and now she had but one thought, not to miss reaching it.

  22. But, speculate as he would on the matter, it was clear that this important document was gone, and probable that it had passed into no friendly hands.

  23. It is interesting to guess for oneself and to speculate upon the possibility of a kind of armoured mother-ship for waterplanes and submarines and torpedo craft, but necessarily that would be a mere journalistic and amateurish guessing.

  24. People have hardly begun to speculate about the consequences of the return of humanity from a closely tethered to a migratory existence.

  25. But when he felt, in memory, the warm touch of her hand, the old wildness of his nature responded, he ceased to speculate or care, and he longed only to crush and subdue her by the brute power of the man in him.

  26. And I have not yet been able to analyze,--I can only speculate and consider.

  27. He accepted gratefully, nor did he pause to speculate upon the mystery by which the stream of his life seemed so suddenly to have been diverted.

  28. It charmed him too much for him to speculate on it.

  29. We now turned to speculate on what would happen when he came back from this shooting-party; how he would recognize me.

  30. Of little use to speculate whether the message, had I learned it then, would have fortified and transformed me!

  31. They were all very grave, and they began to talk about the suddenness of Mr. Watling's illness and to speculate upon its nature.

  32. Had she given me the least encouragement, I am sure I should have responded; and I remember that I used occasionally to speculate as to whether she still cared for me, and took this method of hiding her real feelings.

  33. It is a weakness of human nature, Masthlion, for a poor man to speculate concerning a rich kinsman.

  34. As he progressed along the deserted streets he began to curse his ill-luck and speculate on the consequences.

  35. Without some miracle of light, which might illumine, for one brief moment, the secret solitude of his brooding thoughts, it were idle to conjecture and speculate upon their tenor.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speculate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.