How to Use estimation in a Sentence

estimation

noun

• This is not, in my estimation, an efficient use of our resources.
• She went down in her supporters' estimation after she voted against the plan.
• Planning the project requires careful cost estimation.
• The Utes are the team to beat in the fall, in our estimation.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 10 May 2024
• Doyle’s estimation takes in the stretches that pass through the towns hit the hardest along the trail.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024
• In my estimation, the show has gone off the rails this past season.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• Your wife may have a point in her estimation of this friend.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2022
• All of this is going to take a long time, about 10 to 15 years by Greene’s estimation.
  — Jonathan Lee, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
• In your estimation, what needs to be addressed and fixed with the Heat in the offseason?
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
• By contrast, his team still has a ways to go in his estimation.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
• Even by the standards of this up-in-the-air year, estimations of Ronan’s Best Actress chances are all over the map.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2024
• The line is pretty sharp for this game in my estimation.
  — Adam Burke Vsin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• This is a wake-up call kind of game for the Cardinals in my estimation.
  — Adam Burke Vsin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2021
• So pardon the pun here, but in your estimation, the jury is still out.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 7 May 2024
• Fouls were a problem, even though in the estimation of Ike, her youth coach, and Raegan.
  — oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2023
• So the sale arrived and a very good surprise: The piece sold for more than the high estimation and that’s how my name started to spread.
  — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 29 Feb. 2024
• Not in the estimation of the chef, who aims to do something for everyone.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• There is no estimation of when the refugees will arrive.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2021
• That's because the estimation of adults who don't want the vaccine -- about 12-16% -- has remained steady for about a year.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 9 Dec. 2021
• By his estimation, BYU will be able to get in nine or 10 practices from this point until the bowl game.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Dec. 2022
• The last chapter of Lee’s life was, by any estimation, a tragic one.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
• In his estimation, Harpootlian said Murdaugh would have had about 10 minutes to kill his wife and son, drive up to the house and then get on the road.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
• The Spurs, by most estimation, boast a nice, young roster full of nice, young players.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 13 June 2022
• The Bay Area native was on his team, and Huang noticed that the youngster was, in his estimation, playing the right way.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2021
• Ukrainization, in Putin’s estimation, was a weapon of war.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 9 Feb. 2024
• Notice that this estimation assumes that the mass of the plane doesn't matter.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 9 Jan. 2021
• The utility contends that the faulty bills were the result of a mass estimation process, not the meter readers.
  — Heather Gann | [e-mail], al, 10 Nov. 2022
• In my estimation, there’s a three- to five-year window where kind of everybody can eat to their fill.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2023
• Plenty of Reddit users were amazed by the rare find, and many offered their estimations for what its real value could in fact be.
  — Alyce Collins, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
• In DeBoer’s estimation, his quarterback’s mistakes were one part of a holistic failure on offense.
  — Kennington Smith Iii, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Jan 2025