How to Use "surmise" with Example Sentences

1. The police surmise a link between counterfeiting and drug trafficking .
2. They surmise that it may be because a high-protein diet causes the brain to receive lower levels of appetite-stimulating hormones .
3. As you surmise , the costs of the junk-food strategy are mostly long-term : the children become fat , their teeth rot and they refuse to eat more wholesome fare .
4. One way of reading the chart is to surmise that diminishing returns have set in , that every extra yen spent on r & d goes to employ less talented researchers , who study less promising approaches to the same problems .
5. If they could measure phosphorus , a key nutrient in biological systems known to support the growth of microbes and algae , lyons and planavsky could surmise the total nutrient concentration .