How to Use guesstimate in a Sentence

guesstimate

noun

• This is just a projection, a guesstimate without having a grip on what the Guardians’ 26-man roster will look like.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2021
• In an Instagram post on Friday, the 27-year-old debuted a hot new do: 24 inches (best guesstimate) of sleek jet-black hair, pressed bone straight, and blunt cut bangs.
  — Jennifer Ford, Essence, 1 May 2020
• When planting a crop, a Christmas tree farmer has to decide — or guesstimate — what varieties customers will want to buy almost a decade later when that crop is ready to be sold.
  — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2021
• Our guesstimate: About 95 percent maskless on Saturday.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 11 Sep. 2021
• The Marc’s construction was started in January and the current guesstimate for completion, said Boczek, is probably November.
  — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• The third narrative relegates the economic data to their proper place as an unreliable and heavily revised set of guesstimates.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 30 July 2018
• Savage derived it by combining a good-faith guesstimate by researcher and noted eccentric T.D. Luckey with a textbook’s reasonable, but unsupported human cell count.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2016
• The document says there are no U.S. estimates of the feral hog population based on scientific data but guesstimates suggest a national population of 8 million to 9 million.
  — W. Gardner Selby, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2018

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