How to Use estimate in a Sentence

estimate

1 of 2 verb

• We need to estimate how much paint we'll need for the job.
• They estimated the distance at about three miles.
• The cost of the project has been estimated at about 10 million dollars.
• He estimates that current oil reserves are 20 percent lower than they were a year ago.
• Then they were asked to estimate the chances that they would get divorced.
  — Kimberly Dawn Neumann, Woman's Day, 27 Feb. 2019
• The project is estimated to take two years to complete.
  — Kate Magill, Columbia Flier, 13 June 2018
• The bill itself does not lay out how companies ought to estimate the age of child users.
  — WIRED, 3 Sep. 2022
• People with time blindness struggle to keep track of and estimate time.
  — USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• Some estimate survival times based on the stage of the disease, while others do so based on the extent of the disease.
  — Sanja Jelic, Verywell Health, 22 Sep. 2023
• Another way to estimate temperature is to hold your hand close to the grate and count.
  — SFChronicle.com, 27 Sep. 2020
• The system also can estimate the age and gender of speakers based on their voice.
  — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
• The costs of such a monumental crisis are hard to estimate.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 2 Nov. 2022
• The city estimates construction will take three months to complete.
  — Daily Pilot, 29 Aug. 2019
• King did not estimate when Bay Area skies would clear up.
  — Mallory Moench, SFChronicle.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• The weight of the planes is a key data point for pilots to control aircraft and to estimate fuel needed for routes.
  — Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2020
• His net worth is estimated to be in the multi-million range.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 29 Dec. 2018
• There is no estimated time on when the road will be reopened, police said.
  — Justin Madden, cleveland.com, 4 Jan. 2018
• The total number of such deaths may be difficult to estimate.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 21 Aug. 2019
• But how best to estimate how many people have been infected?
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2021
• The motion estimates that jury selection would take about a week.
  — Kirk Mitchell, The Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2019
• Experts estimate that fewer than one right whale a year can be killed by humans in order for the species to recover.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2020
• For years, scientists have used an inner ear bone called an otolith to estimate the lifespan of fish.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2020
• Some estimate one-in-five restaurants in Illinois are closed for good.
  — Greg Bishop, Washington Examiner, 15 Mar. 2021
• Researchers can also estimate the number of black rhinos in an area and watch their movements.
  — Helen Santoro, Scientific American, 28 Dec. 2020
• The odds of the feat were estimated at 27 trillion to 1.
  — Steve Pajak, sacbee, 26 Dec. 2017
• Miller estimates that the company's revenue will plunge by half to three-quarters this year.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2020
• Scientists estimate the mass of the dust trail could tip the scales at around 1 billion metric tons.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2019
• Twitter estimated in its blog post that most users will lose four followers at most.
  — Emily Stewart, Vox, 11 July 2018
• Officials estimate that the fire has so far destroyed an alpine area stretching over roughly two miles.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
• It is estimated that about three-to-five million microfiber pieces are in a human body at a single time.
  — Tabor Wordelman, Teen Vogue, 19 Dec. 2018

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estimate

2 of 2 noun

• The contractor's estimate for the job seemed high.
• We solicited several estimates for the project.
• One conservative estimate is that he stole five million dollars.
• The company's products are, by general estimate, poorly made.
• According to government estimates, current oil reserves are 10 percent lower than they were a year ago.
• Trager did not have an estimate of how much the work would cost.
  — Caleb Wiegandt, The Courier-Journal, 1 June 2023
• The amount of light blocked by the planet can give us an estimate of its size.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2022
• The client wanted to know whether the initial cost estimate still stood.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2021
• The schools chief said the district will pay for the cost of the work, but no estimate is yet available.
  — Mike Isaacs, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• The plans would include spending estimates for the work.
  — David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2018
• But critics say the city’s cost estimate is much too low.
  — Luke Broadwater, baltimoresun.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• Trump could also be refunded some of the cost if the estimate is too high.
  — Scott Bauer, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
• One estimate says that hundreds of thousands of tons of fishing gear are left in the ocean each year.
  — National Geographic, 16 May 2018
• There has been no estimate of the cost of damages, the department said.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
• The agency didn't have an estimate for how much that has cost during the first three weeks of the program.
  — Jackie Borchardt, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2020
• Markert said the county does not have an estimate on what those costs might be or when the fire might be put out.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 27 Aug. 2020
• The number is then used as an estimate for the amount of hate-speech views removed across the whole platform.
  — Jeff Horwitz, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2021
• Their estimate on outages grew throughout the day as crews worked.
  — Fox News, 22 July 2019
• For more on what earnings estimates could mean for stocks, go here.
  — WSJ, 11 Sep. 2023
• There is no estimate available for when a patch will be released.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2022
• Officials do not have a time estimate on when the fire might be contained.
  — Anastasia Hufham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 June 2022
• The best thing to do is call practices in your area to get a price estimate and consultation.
  — Sarah Wu, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2019
• No one has made a serious estimate of what this would cost.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• This is a key factor in the group's estimate for future price declines.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2020
• Sketch out your yard, including a rough estimate of its length and width.
  — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 29 June 2022
• The Berkeley team did not produce an estimate of lives saved.
  — Laura Meckler, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2020
• That estimate comes on top of a prior surge in rejections of tech visa requests.
  — Star Tribune, 19 Oct. 2020
• So the gate agent has to rely on their mental estimate as passengers board.
  — Aditi Shrikant, Vox, 20 Dec. 2018
• No word on a release date yet (sometime this year is the latest estimate).
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 6 Jan. 2023
• There are no estimates yet of women who were denied abortions or those who were unable to get them.
  — Amy Schoenfeld Walker, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024