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Sentences ending with estimate

It burns about three hundred pounds of carbon a year, (besides other fuel,) when in fair working order, according to a great chemist's estimate. [6]
My mother, especially, seemed to think there was something wrong with that estimate. [5]
One must be on the spot to make a proper estimate. [11]
But it does not affect the general estimate. [4]
As to her mother, she dismissed her with a country estimate. [4]
Certainly that's a low estimate. [5]
He did not know the number of the slain, and he did not think it worth while to make a rough estimate. [10]
I know that it is customary now, when any one dies, to ask how much he was worth, and that no obituary in the newspapers is considered complete without such an estimate. [4]
Mr. Hopper was drinking his tea and silently forming an estimate. [9]
Moreover, it was beyond estimate. [5]

Short sentences using estimate

The estimate may be extravagant. [5]
Estimate! [9]

More example sentences with the word estimate in them

Your estimate of your own ability is not the question, it is what the patient thinks of it. [3]
We gave you your option, to scale down on a fair estimate of the earnings of the short line (the A. and B. [4]
When we are young we generally estimate an opinion by the size of the person that holds it, but later we find that that is an uncertain rule, for we realize that there are times when a hornet's opinion disturbs us more than an emperor's. [5]
I have given you the estimate of the value of a single developed mine. [5]
In your estimate you take no account, it seems to me, of the growth of charity. [4]
The warm confidence with which Mary, the widow of the King of Hungary, who fell in the Turkish war, gazed into Quijada's finely modelled, slightly bronzed countenance proved that she knew how to estimate his worth aright. [10]
A horseman with whom we rode in the morning gave us a very low estimate of the trustworthiness of the inhabitants. [4]
At a cost which no human being could estimate, he had done his duty, and in some degree reaped his reward. [6]
We estimate that we are within seven hundred miles of the Sandwich Islands, and that our average, daily, is somewhat over a hundred miles, so that our hopes have some foundation in reason. [5]
Fosters Opera House was some six squares distant, and by a liberal estimate Mr. Duncan and his advance guard ought to get back within twenty minutes of the time he left. [9]
Austen apparently cared very little for him or his opinions in comparison with his own estimate of right and wrong. [9]
It is a very important problem, and has been a good deal discussed, and its solution would form one fixed, philosophical basis, upon which to estimate woman's character. [5]
Maria had grown up amid the battle for freedom, and knew how to estimate the grave importance of the tidings her husband had received. [10]
He may not unreasonably look for some general estimate of the life work of the scholar and thinker of whom he has been reading. [6]
I trust I understand and truly estimate the right of self-government. [7]
Before I get to the higgledy-piggledy point, as Mr. Howells suggested I do, I want to thank you, gentlemen, for this very high honor you are doing me, and I am quite competent to estimate it at its value. [5]
But it goes to prove that you can never be exact in your estimate of character. [11]
It is impossible to make any estimate, for the people are fleeing to the hills, so rapid is the rise. [5]
The travelers endeavored to get from the rider an estimate of the price of land. [4]
I estimate "Oahu" to be worth somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty-five cents. [5]
With other men, to be defeated was to be forgotten; but with him defeat was but a trifling incident, neither changing him nor the world's estimate of him. [7]
I am trying to add to the "assets" which you estimate so generously. [5]
At the same time he is not oppressed by his materials, but has sagacity to estimate their real value, and he has combined with scholarly power the facts which they contain. [6]
But no one thought the less of him for his pace--that is, no one appeared to, for this sort of estimate of a man is only tested by his misfortunes, when the day comes that he must seek financial backing. [4]
We know that those in Madrid understand how to estimate his importance and fear him. [10]
And, worse than this, the estimate she placed upon the values of material things was shockingly inadequate to her position. [4]
I feel that this study of Irving as a man of letters would be incomplete, especially for the young readers of this generation, if it did not contain some more extended citations from those works upon which we have formed our estimate of his quality. [4]
You recognize that this estimate is admissible, do you not? [5]
You recognise that this estimate is admissible, do you not? [5]
The estimate of the elevation of the several localities above sea-level is pretty correct--for Baedeker. [5]
My belief is that the permanent estimate of what a general does in the field is fixed by the "cloud of witnesses" who have been with him in the field, and that, relying on these, he who has the right needs not to fear. [7]
This shows, better than any estimate in figures, how high the experimenter went. [5]
There is a singular sagacity very often shown in a patient's estimate of his own vital force. [6]
One of the secrets of Mr. Tiernan's very human success was due to his ability to estimate his fellow creatures. [9]
In the diplomatic scale Washington still ranks below the Sublime Porte, but this anomaly is due to tradition, and does not represent England's real estimate of the status of the republic. [4]
Her eyes still rested on his face, questioningly, appraisingly, as though she were seeking to estimate his preparedness for the ordeal before him, his ability to go through with it successfully, triumphantly. [9]
The fresh-water fisherman represented pretty well the average estimate of the class to which he belonged. [6]
I made a rapid estimate of the cost of the seed, the interest of the ground, the price of labor, the value of the bushes, the anxiety of weeks of watchfulness. [4]
It produced a powerful impression upon her mind, wholly unaccustomed to the estimate of such things. [10]
As for the poets, they can take their choice of Emerson's poetical or prose estimate of the great Mystic, but they cannot very well accept both. [6]
Men in high places underestimated Lincoln, or did not estimate him at all. [9]
Perhaps to this philosophical institution the judgment of our philosopher Emerson will commend itself as a just estimate of Lincoln's historical place. [7]
How was he or any man to estimate, to unravel the justice from the injustice, to pass upon the merit of this woman's punishment? [9]
Getting up, she opened the glass door, and stood trying to estimate the hour: it must be, she thought, about six. [9]
In any estimate of the prospects of England we must take into account the recent marked changes in the social condition. [4]
This popular estimate of the poet extends also, possibly in less degree, to all the producers of the literature that does not concern itself with knowledge. [4]
If my estimate of the character of Smith is not that which his biographers have entertained, and differs from his own candid opinion, I can only plead that contemporary evidence and a collation of his own stories show that he was mistaken. [4]
Mr. Tiernan's estimate of Miss Lise Bumpus, if he could have been induced to reveal it, would have been worth listening to. [9]
The vulgar estimate of his contemporaries, that reckoned Old Phelps "lazy," was simply a failure to comprehend the conditions of his being. [4]
Of contemporary estimate of him there is little to quote except the panegyrics in verse he has preserved for us, and the inference from his own writings that he was the object of calumny and detraction. [4]
As it was obviously impossible even to estimate in how large a number of cases throughout the animal kingdom these two propositions held good, it occurred to me to investigate some striking or crucial instances, and to rely on the result. [1]
In India their number is beyond estimate, and their noise is in proportion. [5]
If I am not mistaken, a late estimate gave us less than fifty thousand persons in our State prisons and penitentiaries. [4]
Who can estimate my age today? [5]
It seems to me that it is better to have a good man's flattering estimate of my influence--and to keep it--than to fool it away with trying to get him an office. [5]
The translations excited me much, and who can estimate the value of a good thought? [6]
A careful estimate makes the length of the passages of all the catacombs combined foot up nine hundred miles, and their graves number seven millions. [5]
As a mere literary criticism on Smith's writings, it would appear that he had a habit of transferring to his own career notable incidents and adventures of which he had read, and this is somewhat damaging to an estimate of his originality. [4]
In the following letter we get a Mark Twain estimate of the great financier who so cheerfully was willing to undertake the solving of Mark Twain's financial problems. [5]
A genealogical table is very apt to illustrate the "survival of the fittest,"--in the estimate of the descendants. [6]
To justify Clement in his estimate of the danger of such an experiment, we must remember that to young people in their teens a first passion is a portentous and unprecedented phenomenon. [6]
Their lowest estimate in evidence is six miles an hour, their highest twelve miles. [7]
He loved and honored his mother with his whole heart, and feeling that she was doing herself an injustice by her false and low estimate of his proceedings, he interrupted her eager discourse, raising his hands imploringly to her. [10]
It is only honest to declare that in my soberer moments my estimate of his character suffered. [9]
In speaking of his worth, it has never occurred to me to estimate Calvin by the worldly standard. [4]
Benjamin might fix his own estimate, and name any sum he wished for some benevolent purpose, and he, Orion, was ready to pay it to him on the spot. [10]
He expresses, also, his high estimate of the general tenor and spirit of the whole work. [1]
Those who knew his good heart, his great honesty, as well as his patience in suffering, will know how justly to estimate our grief. [4]
He had made himself responsible, from time to time, for additional sums, until the original estimate had been almost doubled. [9]
Janet did not herself realize or estimate the innate if undeveloped sense of form she possessed, the artist-instinct that made her breathless on first beholding Silliston Common. [9]
The contemplation of her courage, of her determination to abide by nothing save the truth, had had a power over him that he might not estimate, and he loved her as a man loves a woman, for her imperfections. [9]
It does not help me at all in my estimate of their characters to compare Mandeville with the Young Lady, or Our Next Door with the Parson. [4]
She had never held Tom Gaylord's powers of comprehension in high estimation, and the estimate had not risen during this visit. [9]
Who had hitherto held the words of the Leith statesman in such golden estimate as to curtail advertising columns when it was necessary to print them for the public good? [9]
I would not have put the estimate half so high. [11]
In fact, I have just seen a newspaper estimate which gives the former seventy-one thousand, and the latter seventy-eight thousand. [5]
What is your general estimate of doctors, lawyers, and ministers?--said I. [6]
I bring this forward merely to show the high estimate placed on the Missouri Compromise by all parties up to so late as the year 1849. [7]
If I have formed a correct estimate of Mr. Lindau, this will be perfectly simple. [8]
His total charge for the entertainment of two men and two horses--supper, lodging, and breakfast--was high or low, as the traveler chose to estimate it. [4]
Little by little, for five years, an estimate of the extent of Miller Gorse's power had been coming home to me, and his features stood in my mind for his particular kind of power. [9]
Letronne was the first to estimate it correctly. [10]
And yet I fear you have formed an estimate of me which can scarcely be sustained on a personal acquaintance. [7]
But before the fact had enabled King to settle the position of his new acquaintance satisfactorily to himself, Mrs. Stubbs upset his estimate by quoting Tennyson. [4]
Human intellect cannot estimate what we owe to woman, sir. [5]
You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you. [4]
His tendency to estimate the measure of the work he was doing, and had completed, must have clung to him from his old printer days. [5]
I made an estimate some years ago, when I appeared before a committee of the House of Lords, that we had published in this country since the Declaration of Independence 220,000 books. [5]
No one can estimate probably how much of the refinement, of the delicacy of feeling, has been lost to the world by the introduction of the postal-card. [4]
My previous high estimate of General Grant has been maintained and heightened by what has occurred in the remarkable campaign he is now conducting, while the magnitude and difficulty of the task before him does not prove less than I expected. [7]
No one could estimate it exactly. [10]
They tried to estimate how long they had been in the cave, but all they knew was that it seemed days and weeks, and yet it was plain that this could not be, for their candles were not gone yet. [5]
I could have endorsed Clovelly's estimate of her so far as her reserve and sedateness were concerned. [11]
How low was Eglington's estimate of humanity! [11]
The first thing Dyck had done, after escaping from the river, was to study the wants of the Ariadne and make an estimate for the future with Greenock, the master. [11]
It is so difficult to estimate an interior deterioration of this sort, for Jack was just as popular with his comrades as ever, and apparently more prosperous. [4]
And thus by degrees she was able to build up a new and truer estimate of him. [9]
There is a decidedly heroic element in his courage, hardihood, and enthusiasm, softened to the modern observer's comprehension by the humorous contrast between his achievements and his estimate of them. [4]
I am your daughter, I have been your most intimate companion, and I had the right to think that you should have formed some estimate of my character. [9]
At the lowest conceivable estimate (2,000 machines a year,) we shall sell 34,000 in the life of the patent--17 years. [5]

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