Example sentences for: tantamount

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

  • A straightforward Good day', with little stress on good , is the neutral greeting; Good' day', with equal stress and even a slight pause between the words, uttered emphatically, is tantamount to dismissal; the Australian G'dye is again the neutral expression on meeting or parting.

  • This was technically difficult to do, for calling it a state would be tantamount to diplomatic recognition, which the United States had thus far withheld.

  • This column is tantamount to having an ABC account exec go on World News Tonight to deliver a special report on why Drew Carey gives you more bang for your media buck.

  • This is tantamount to free advertising.

  • In Germany yesterday for the 10 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, former President Bush reminisced about some bad advice he received a decade ago: "In my view, that would have been an open provocation, tantamount to sticking our fingers in the eyes of the Soviet military."


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