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 cutting 500 calories a day from your food to lose 1 pound a week.
  — Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 21 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Musk is a living reminder that a lot of bad press does not equate to failure.
  — Axios, 20 Jan. 2025
• Scrolling through her Instagram grid for the last year equates to lots of long-hair inspo.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 24 Jan. 2025
• That equates to roughly the amount of water in a standard 16-ounce bottle.
  — Ryan Browne, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2024
• But the absences of Johnson, Russell and Simmons shouldn’t equate to this.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025
• Cottagecore equates to shades of brown while coquette is pretty in pink?
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 3 Apr. 2024
• But that still does not equate to a war-winning strategy.
  — Raphael S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 18 Feb. 2025
• 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
• The percentage equates to 537 people injured from shootings in the city.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Dec. 2024
• Disapproval of Israel’s actions in Gaza doesn’t equate to a vote against Biden.
  — Mathew Biadun, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2024

Last Updated: 8 Mar 2025