amount to
Example Sentences
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It is claimed the eight allegations "amount to an unreasonable use of force".
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Nepal estimates the reconstruction bill after deadly floods sparked by a glacial mountain collapse last month will amount to $4.78 billion, the foreign ministry said on Friday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
The company alleges total damages to Lineage will amount to more than $1 billion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
In the end, Grier instructed the jury that the Fugitive Slave Law should be obeyed but that individual resistance did not amount to treason.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
And this touches me, somehow, even more than the presumptive lie about his assets: that this place he has described as so morbidly dysfunctional could amount to a real and compelling human community.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
