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.
• The pin on the map below shows an approximation of where the car was located.
  — Joseph Geha, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2017
• Still, the Yankees have seen this before, or at least a close approximation.
  — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2016
• This, to a first approximation, is the secular story of our creation.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
• The gas tax is at least a fairly close approximation to a user fee, which is preferable because those who use the roads should bear the burden of maintaining them.
  — Orange County Register, 12 Mar. 2017
• People are also required to get a receipt from the charity, so generous approximations are no longer valid.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2005
• The joke that no winners from the show would thank Simpson himself during their speeches was funny, and a good approximation of Rock’s joke structure.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 8 Jan. 2017
• Assuming you’re not making your own dough, empanada wrappers are the closest approximation of homemade in both flavor and texture.
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 7 Apr. 2017
• Years removed from fame (or some approximation thereof), both men embraced the chance to rap as nobodies, creating songs that were outsized and fantastical.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• Unable to use an actual @google.com email address or official Google website, hackers can only opt for rough approximations.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2016
• Tesla doesn’t report sales numbers for specific models or regions, so deliveries are the closest approximation to them.
  — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
• In 2000, in the closest approximation yet, Benford used a microwave beam to accelerate a sail made of a carbon sheet.
  — Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2016
• 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
• 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
• For two minutes at a time, the artist brought Sudan—or, at least, a 3-D approximation of him—back to life.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2021
• For those who came of age after the Brat Pack reign, there’s no close approximation.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 13 June 2024
• Bankman-Fried: The one-two step is just an approximation.
  — Brendan Doherty, Forbes, 16 May 2021
• 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
• The same approximation also holds for the moon, Banerdt notes.
  — National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019
• This was the inverse-Laplace-transform part of the researchers’ framework, the approximation of the function of past time.
  — Wired, 17 Feb. 2019
• In the new world, there will be, to a rough approximation, zero living coral reefs.
  — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2022
• This is, of course, a rough approximation of the present debate over policing.
  — Longreads, 22 Jan. 2018
• My approximation of Carey’s omelet proved to have a good, eggy profile.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Lumbly does a good approximation of the trademark rasp.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Most special cases do not require an exact Kolmogorov complexity—an approximation will suffice.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024