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.

  • In its groveling 1990 editorial apology, the Inquirer said: "Our critics countered that to dangle cash or some other benefit in front of a desperately poor woman is tantamount to coercion.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Once again the historical pedant, he explained why the Clinton campaign-finance scandal--which he previously called merely "worse than Watergate"--is actually tantamount to the fall of Rome.


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