How to Use guesstimate in a Sentence

guesstimate

noun
  • This weekend’s box office is one big ol’ guesstimate.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2025
  • And my guesstimate of 5 percent will be conservative for some states.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2022
  • One early guesstimate located the heliopause as close as Jupiter.
    — Tim Folger, Scientific American, 18 June 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The production schedule has some elasticity in it, but Dodge's initial guesstimate calls for a mere 2000 examples to be produced.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 20 July 2022
  • With these new tactics has come a new politics, in which popular legitimacy depends less on the media’s guesstimates of the size of a crowd but on the actual numbers of people seen camped out in certain squares.
    — Roger Owen, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2013
  • 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
  • Seelinger demurs again when asked how much a studio or individual might pay for this service and won’t even entertain our guesstimates, which hover in the $6,000 to $12,000 range.
    — Brett Berk, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026
  • But what matters more today than refining guesstimates on average selling price and penetration rates, is understanding the unmet needs of populations living with neurodegenerative diseases, physical injuries, and psychiatric indications.
    — Naveen Rao, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024

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