Example sentences for: equate

How can you use “equate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Professionals who are increasingly willing to identify situations as harmful aren't necessarily ready to equate them with the sort of abuse and neglect they are legally obliged to report.

  • When I am out and about, whether getting food or shopping for other goods, I seem to encounter clerks who equate "There you go" with "Thank you."

  • Journalists and wounded politicians love to equate criticism with assault.

  • Run continued to be used in this sense (as late as 1909), but station came increasingly to mean an establishment rather than an area and, in this application, to equate with mission station or a reserve set aside by a government agency (later native reserve, and later still Aboriginal reserve ).

  • Pro-choicers equate the American way with pluralism, threatened by radical fundamentalism.


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