Example sentences for: tantamount

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

  • The end result of his work therefore is tantamount to sabotage, albeit unintended, since any native Yiddish speaker starting to answer the questionnaire with the help of this Guide would soon have to discard, in utter confusion, both the Census Form and the Guide as well.

  • And shouldn't IPOers be excluded from clanging since the decision is tantamount to pouring millions into their stock?

  • Pollock added the notion that demonstrations of effectiveness in primary care settings, in the eyes of policymakers and payers, are not tantamount to demonstrating cost-effectiveness in emergency departments, underscoring the importance of research in that setting.

  • Because writing an unfavorable review of a (bad) feminist book would be tantamount to treachery, such books are often unjustifiably praised, as was the case with this work by Rosalind Miles, which was well received on its publication in June.

  • 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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