How to Use equate to in a Sentence

equate to

phrasal verb
  • That equates to about $84 per hour for a 40-hour work week.
    Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • This equates to six roundtrips to the mainland at top speed.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2024
  • That’s one year out of 79, which equates to a base rate of 1.2 percent.
    Bryan Walsh, Vox, 3 June 2024
  • The bonus check equates to 10.4% of their annual salary.
    Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Refunds of those sales are likely to equate to a huge hit to the overall sales of the game.
    Emily Price, PCMAG, 5 May 2024
  • That equates to about a quarter of U.S. Methodist churches.
    Sarah Maddox, CBS News, 9 May 2024
  • That equates to a roughly 2.6% yield based on current stock prices.
    Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024
  • That equates to roughly 1,000 calories a day, give or take.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • That equates to about three 12-ounce (oz) cups of coffee daily.
    Janelle McSwiggin, Msn, Rn, Health, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The worst-case scenario equates to under 200 miles of range with a full battery.
    Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
  • That equates to a new all-time high about every four trading days.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 24 June 2024
  • The code might be executable, but this doesn’t also equate to the code doing the right things.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • But Joel’s farewell to a standing set of shows in no way equates to retirement.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 21 July 2024
  • But their footwork in the group stage didn't equate to many goals, or victories.
    Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The amount equates to about 1.3 million in Australian dollars.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
  • That equates to roughly the amount of water in a standard 16-ounce bottle.
    Ryan Browne, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Cottagecore equates to shades of brown while coquette is pretty in pink?
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 3 Apr. 2024
  • That’s more than four times the normal rainfall for the whole month of September, and equates to more than half a year’s worth for this area.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
  • But when the capabilities fall short of the challenge, that equates to stress.
    Mia Taylor, Parents, 10 Sep. 2024
  • This could likely equate to many summer dresses, shorts, and bathing suits.
    Lindsay Tigar, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
  • That equates to a total of 5.5 percent of all the airline’s departures on Dec. 31.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2023
  • This equates to a jump of 52% in the likelihood that someone would believe that fraud occurred.
    Inbok Rhee, The Conversation, 30 July 2024
  • The 8% figure equates to an extremely modest PE of around 13.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Disapproval of Israel’s actions in Gaza doesn’t equate to a vote against Biden.
    Mathew Biadun, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2024
  • These numbers do not equate to genocide but more to the brutality of war.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2024
  • No amount of time spent inside them equates to an exposure to asbestos.
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 26 Nov. 2024
  • But, a larger carat size doesn’t always equate to a larger-looking stone.
    Kristi Kellogg, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The average person spends about a third of their lives sleeping — which, for most people, will equate to more than two and a half decades.
    Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Police are responding to a huge surge in thefts that traces back to the two brands, equating to a huge drain on agency bandwidth.
    Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 27 July 2023
  • According to the back of my envelope here, that equates to a less-than-stellar cost of US$450-odd per ton captured.
    New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2024

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