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How To Use conjectural In A Sentence

• Despite increased understanding of the nature of the disease in general, the factors that contribute to symptomatic destabilization are little studied and much remains conjectural.
• I slipped away from the port and went along the deck to the break of the poop, where I held on and stood staring through the gray and spray in the conjectural direction of our drift. CHAPTER XXXVIII
• My point is why make the claim for a developed canon in the first place, especially when it is based on conjectural attributions and dates.
• Christian contemporaries, and that their knowledge was mainly confined to mere commercial notation, an anonymous writer has shown how the modifications of form could be naturally made, in vol.ii. of the _Bath and Bristol Magazine_, pp. 393-412.; the motto being _valent quanti valet_, as well as the title professing it to be wholly "conjectural. Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850
• Her inspiring words were the only remnants other than my conjectural thoughts that I allowed to follow my every flight.
• Citing the findings of previous interpreters could also be a way of letting readers know that a translation was itself a conjectural reconstruction open to refutation.
• When there is a dispute as to the fact, since the cause is confirmed by conjectures, it is called a conjectural statement. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
• Therefore here is the deficience which I find, that physicians have not, partly out of their own practice, partly out of the constant probations reported in books, and partly out of the traditions of empirics, set down and delivered over certain experimental medicines for the cure of particular diseases, besides their own conjectural and magistral descriptions. The Advancement of Learning
• How much farther it might have run is conjectural; for, after one big game, he never played again. THE FAITH OF MEN
• That a conjectural critick should often be mistaken, cannot be wonderful, either to others or himself, if it be considered, that in his art there is no system, no principal and axiomatical truth that regulates subordinate positions. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces