How to Use approximation in a Sentence

approximation

noun

• The color of the paint isn't the exact same color as the vase, but it's a close approximation.
• This isn't an exact figure but I think it's a good approximation of what the land is worth.
• This one is a close approximation, though any rugged button-down from the back of the closet might do.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 2 Aug. 2023
• In the new world, there will be, to a rough approximation, zero living coral reefs.
  — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2022
• That will at least give me a rough approximation for my analysis.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 27 June 2019
• This is, of course, a rough approximation of the present debate over policing.
  — Longreads, 22 Jan. 2018
• In end though, substance — or at least his sincere approximation of it — wins.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• My approximation of Carey’s omelet proved to have a good, eggy profile.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
• The pin on the map below shows an approximation of where the car was located.
  — Joseph Geha, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2017
• And harder to see is the skull behind the face; an X-ray is at best an approximation.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• The same approximation also holds for the moon, Banerdt notes.
  — National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019
• This timeline is meant to give you an approximation of what will be on the ground (and on the roads) as the storm progresses.
  — Terry Eliasen, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2026
• For those who came of age after the Brat Pack reign, there’s no close approximation.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 13 June 2024
• Still, the Yankees have seen this before, or at least a close approximation.
  — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2016
• These networks of electric nodes are a rough approximation of the inner workings of our minds.
  — Claire Bugos, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2021
• The fact that eBooks can only be read by one patron at a time puts me back in an approximation of a public space.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 1 May 2024
• One by one, the chefs brought up their approximations of Colicchio’s dish.
  — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 29 May 2024
• This is the scientific method, to ask this tricky question and find a way to get a good approximation to an answer to it.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2022
• Loosely shape the dough into an approximation of a circle, an inch or so thick, being careful not to work it.
  — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2020
• Data is an imperfect approximation of some aspect of the world at a certain time and place.
  — Andrea Jones-Rooy, Quartz, 24 July 2019
• Not intimately, and not from the inside out, but as more than an approximation.
  — Literary Hub, 14 July 2026
• An approximation of this action gets the job done more than adequately here.
  — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 Feb. 2026
• Isn't this a poor approximation to the actual area of a circle (half-circle)?
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2018
• The black lines on the map show median values for land and, in effect, serve as approximations of where coastlines are.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2019
• Its background color, if not a spot-on match, is at least a close approximation to Tiffany’s iconic robin’s-egg blue.
  — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2021
• My best approximation of the flavor is that of the raisins from bottom-shelf, vegan, low-calorie rum-raisin ice cream.
  — Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, 9 June 2021
• The group plans to go back to court to force the local government to return the land to its original state or some approximation.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• You might be swept slightly off-balance by this movie, which is a fair approximation of how Ali and Ava feel most of the time.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• Wright, who probably brings the closest approximation to Rodriguez’s mix of size and skillset, is as good a guess as any.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 9 Aug. 2022
• In the past, my own slice-and-bake cookies have come out of the oven looking more like approximations of circles than actual circles.
  — Jesse Sparks, Bon Appétit, 4 Mar. 2020