How to Use equivalent in a Sentence

equivalent

adjective

• Those less-known companies manufacture equivalent products at cheaper prices.
• I haven't taken English 202, but I took an equivalent course at another university.
• But a pair of 24-inch monitors would take up an equivalent amount of space.
  — Michael J. Miller, PCMAG, 6 July 2023
• Other equivalent events such as la Grande Boucle Féminin were held, but these did not last.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• This value is equivalent to about a quarter of her base salary.
  — Katherine Oung, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Aug. 2023
• Is there any sense of an equivalent Protestant guilt that comes out through your own music?
  — Vulture, 25 Aug. 2023
• The union has been pushing for a wage increase equivalent to nearly an extra month of pay.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
• The queue is one of the longest, old-fashioned box office lines in the world, the sports equivalent to the infamous Studio 54 line, but a lot older.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 6 July 2023
• The product was intended to be the software equivalent of a concept car.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2023
• Collect all nine badges and get 750 crowns, which is equivalent to a free Whopper sandwich.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
• The second year is equivalent to nine human years, and then each subsequent dog year is about four to five human years.
  — USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
• Andy Ballester, a co-founder of the crowdfunding site GoFundMe, set aside around $5.3 million – an amount equivalent to the value of the construction loan.
  — Eden Stiffman, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2023
• Topping the list: Most EVs, thanks to the large battery system, weigh hundreds of pounds or more than equivalent gas vehicles.
  — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
• Wind speeds in microbursts can reach up to 100 mph or higher, which is equivalent to an EF1 tornado.
  — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2024
• The bills were almost equivalent to their mortgage payments.
  — Valeria Olivares, Dallas News, 30 June 2023
• The rest of Wall Street is also overwhelmingly bullish on the stock — with 52 analysts rating it a buy or equivalent.
  — Subrat Patnaik, Fortune, 6 July 2023
• The equivalent space for a human would be somewhere between the width of a doorway and an elevator, Skeels explains.
  — Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2023
• For these people, about 15 days of emissions were equivalent to a lifetime of emissions from someone in the poorest 10 percent of the United States, the Post noted.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2023
• This means a maximum charge rate of 1.9 kilowatts, which is equivalent to pouring less than a cup of gasoline into the tank every hour.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 28 June 2023
• The health impact of loneliness is equivalent to smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day.
  — Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 14 June 2023
• According to the brand, 10 minutes on the trampoline is equivalent to an hour of jogging or 20 minutes of swimming.
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
• The nurse said a new notice for a total of 15 full-time equivalent positions in labor and delivery at Hillcrest were added.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2024
• The $2,350 that Rachel Heller paid to renounce her citizenship years ago was almost equivalent to her monthly salary.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• The buybacks were equivalent to around 4% of Gabon’s total debt, according to Moody’s Investors Service.
  — Will Horner, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2023
• All other polls get a weight of one, which is equivalent to not applying an outlier downweight at all.
  — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• If there’s a driving equivalent to taking off and landing a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier, this is it.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• Hundreds of wildfires across Canada have burned twice as much area in the country as in any previous season - an area equivalent to the state of Alabama's size.
  — Ellen Francis, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• This extract is said to be equivalent to taking three to four Viagra pills, but without the negative side effects that those Rx pills may cause.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
• The Japanese drink about 8 liters of pure alcohol per year per capita – that’s roughly equivalent to 1.6 bottles of wine or about 3 liters of beer per week per person.
  — Junko Ogura, CNN, 29 Aug. 2023
• The report also said that globally, men own $105 trillion more than women — a difference in wealth equivalent to more than four times the size of the U.S. economy.
  — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024