Example sentences for: equivalents

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

  • Further, these oxidative equivalents may then be stabilized in the form of high oxidation states of some elements that are particularly abundant in Martian soil.

  • If you had to find one word in Spanish for our special meaning you would have to choose among the Spanish equivalents of discussion, debate , or quarrel , none of which quite hits the mark.

  • Both Byron's and Ruskin's wayward words are directly related to their modern equivalents but have essentially historic spellings.

  • Still, because these borrowed, aberrant words represent relatively rare infractions of the time-honored rules of grammar, I doubt that matters will ever reach the point where literate Greeks would be driven to gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair by Greek equivalents of barbarisms such as to you and I and Us teachers are ....

  • It is the system of writing that the victorious Japanese wanted to impose on the defeated Australians, New Zealanders, and Americans at the end of World War II, forcing them to abandon Latin letters and use Chinese logographs as phonetic equivalents of English words instead.


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