How to Use amount to in a Sentence

amount to

phrasal verb
  • That amounts to a more than 9% decline over the last month.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • But the way the wolves attack the cattle amounts to torture, the pair said.
    Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • So much of these next couple of months will amount to a game of 3D chess.
    Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Nov. 2024
  • That would still amount to fifteen per cent of the agency.
    David W. Brown, New Yorker, 12 June 2025
  • How to Apply: Apply a small amount to the lengths and ends of damp or dry hair.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 15 July 2025
  • This would amount to laying trails of bread crumbs through the forest as it is grown.
    Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Even for what amounted to a price tag of free, no one claimed Kelly, and the Rays released him in 2014.
    Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025
  • Many tracks amount to a quirky beat and a few seconds of vaporous rapping.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
  • This amounts to more than 40 times what Fuchs spent on consulting in eight years.
    Silas Morgan, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The penalty amounts to 5% of the taxes owed for each month that the filing is late, up to a maximum of 25%.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Trump’s shares amounted to more than half of the company’s stock.
    Associated Press, TIME, 15 Feb. 2025
  • EVs still amount to less than 10% of total car sales in the US, compared to more than 50% in China.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 17 July 2025
  • Remember, even if their nails are very long, trim just a very small amount to start.
    Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
  • In each of those years, his tab for a tax crafted to target traders like him amounted to $0.
    Paul Kiel, ProPublica, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Most require more than one dose, which amounts to nearly 30 jabs by age 2.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, 22 May 2025
  • The price amounts to a 4% increase from the previous cycle, just for the live events, according to the league.
    Thomas Seal, Fortune Europe, 5 Dec. 2023
  • This amounts to a tax offset of $904 for each King County household.
    Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 10 May 2025
  • All of this amounts to a safer, more comfortable treatment process.
    Ahmed Zambarakji, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The layoffs amount to about 20% of the newsroom, and come after the paper cut 74 newsroom staffers just a few months ago.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
  • In Gaza, all that will amount to restoring a measure of what already was there just two years ago.
    Karl Vick, Time, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Those passing the store amounts to 70 million people each year.
    Andrew MacKie, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • There’s a place for what amounts to meat-and-potatoes TV, even in the prestige-conscious streaming world.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 21 July 2023
  • The to-do list amounts to a major hurdle for Thune, who is rushing to meet a July 4 deadline to pass the bill.
    David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 27 June 2025
  • But the whole thing feels very predictable, which amounts to a general sense of mediocrity.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Just as with dine-in tips, Lynn does not have a clear-cut answer about an exact amount to tip for takeout.
    Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The ice cream giveaway amounts to 50 pints of ice cream per minute of sunlight during the summer solstice.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2024
  • That amounts to more than a percentage point drop from a peak reached in October.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2024
  • That would amount to the fewest seats won by the Conservative Party since its founding in 1834.
    Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post, 21 June 2024
  • Smotrich’s goal is clear: the large-scale displacement of the Palestinian people, which could well amount to a war crime.
    Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Critics have said the ad blitz amounts to a glorification of whiteness and a dog whistle for racist ideologies.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2025

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