How to Use approximately in a Sentence

approximately

adverb

• The approximately 50-count party pack comes in crispy or spicy and with dipping sauces on the side.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 10 May 2024
• Long was approximately 70 years old at the time of the photograph.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
• That’s only a small portion of the approximately 2,000 shelter beds in the city of San Diego, but the overall demand makes beds hard to come by.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2023
• The tea left out on the counter, steeps in room-temperature water with the aid of sunlight and is ready in approximately an hour.
  — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 8 June 2023
• Sena is described as a white female who is 5 feet 1 inch and weighs approximately 90 lbs.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
• That's the lion's share of the approximately $25 million the PAC spent overall in that period.
  — Fin Gómez, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2023
• This helps to ensure that everyone can bring a gift that’s well within their budget and that all the gifts are approximately the same value.
  — Samantha Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2023
• The wreck of the Titanic is in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 370 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
• The man’s body was found approximately 50 yards from where his canoe capsized, State Police said.
  — Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
• Measuring approximately 300 square feet, the ADU has enough space for a bed, sofa, kitchenette and desk for working from home.
  — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• On the subject of finances, Brunello told the audience of about 20 people that the city has a cash reserve of approximately $8 million.
  — cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
• This year, the landfill will receive approximately $1.3 million dollars and the port and harbor will receive about $1.5 million from the city.
  — Christina McDermott, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
• In total at least 40 games, approximately 10 each season, will be shown by ITV over the period this new rights deal covers.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Sep. 2023
• The approximately 180 campers responded with cheers and so began Simons’ first basketball camp in the Portland area, a project two years in the making.
  — Afentres, oregonlive, 12 Aug. 2023
• Plans show that the kiosk will employee approximately 15 to 20 employees with three to four baristas working at a time.
  — Adrienne Davis, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• Recent estimates show that there are approximately 280 elk in the state.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 20 Sep. 2023
• The report found that a whopping 42.5 percent of luxury homes that were sold in the third quarter were paid for in cash, an approximately 8 percent increase when compared to the same time last year.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2023
• To put these changes in perspective, the average decline in memory scores on this scale in patients with mild Alzheimer’s is approximately one to two points per year.
  — Madhav Thambisetty, STAT, 28 Nov. 2023
• In the early years of their membership, the Bay Area schools would receive quarter-shares (approximately), with the amount increasing until 2036.
  — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2023
• The outlet said the lawsuit alleges that approximately 60 members – white and Asian American – have been excluded from the grant program due to their race.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 11 Aug. 2023
• Its dyed and cast concrete figures stand approximately 10 feet tall, with hollowed eyes honoring the Indigenous peoples as the first stewards of the land.
  — Donovan X. Ramsey, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2024
• The Company ended the year with approximately $9.0 million of cash.
  — Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
• Tickets for the new Frecciarossa service are sold on the Trenitalia website and are expected to cost approximately $34 (€30), though prices have yet to be confirmed.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 July 2023
• The two locations are approximately a 10-minute drive from one another.
  — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
• Falcon is located at the eastern edge of the Athabasca Basin and approximately 35 kilometres east of the active Key Lake uranium mill and former mine.
  — Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2024
• With approximately 35 million people in the U.S. on dating apps this year, 57% of women on dating apps believe online dating isn’t safe.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 5 Sep. 2023
• The Walk of Fame Committee will select approximately 24 names for honorees.
  — Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 2 Apr. 2024
• And in February last year, Roman mosaics approximately 1,800 years old were discovered at the site.
  — Caolán Magee, CNN, 14 June 2023
• The movie has been thriving at the French box office with approximately 8 million euros grossed from nearly 1 million admissions.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
• LaVine’s contract, which has four years and approximately $176 million left, and concerns about his injury history have cooled his market — along with one of the least-efficient seasons of his career.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024