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
• Those arrests amounted to the largest one-day total in the U.K. in a decade.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 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
• The state has paid that amount to HHC annually since 2009 in recognition of Eskenazi's role as a safety net for those who can't pay.
  — Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 12 Aug. 2025
• Of course, in typical Swift fashion, this could all amount to nothing — but that’s not nearly as fun as believing that this week could bring some major news to the Swiftie world.
  — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2025