How to Use tantamount in a Sentence

tantamount

adjective

• His statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt.
• They see any criticism of the President as tantamount to treason.
• This is tantamount to the fact that no knowledge is a waste.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• In the demonology of the left, the Kochs are tantamount to Satan.
  — Jeff Jacoby, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2018
• Putin said last week that this would be tantamount to war.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2024
• For a slippery show like Sense8, that's tantamount to death.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 8 June 2018
• The latter would have been tantamount to a life sentence.
  — Michael Tarm and Claire Savage, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023
• Within a few weeks, the very notion of a choir would become tantamount to a dirty bomb.
  — Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2021
• On the far left, to be amarillo is tantamount to being a traitor.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
• Over that time, so much of it has made its way around the world that YouTube’s ban is tantamount to bailing out a sinking boat.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021
• Taking your eyes off Maradona was tantamount to going to the concession stand in the middle of the match.
  — Barry Wilner, Star Tribune, 26 Nov. 2020
• My patience for folks who think a glittery parade is tantamount to hate speech can't come to the phone right now.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 19 June 2019
• This is tantamount to a destructive race to the bottom.
  — Kotter, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• To some of the Republicans who had stood with Biden in the White House driveway, this was tantamount to a veto threat.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 28 June 2021
• Those charges are legally tantamount to the counts against Chauvin and carry the same penalties.
  — CBS News, 29 June 2020
• That was tantamount to ordering middle and high schools for girls to stay shut.
  — Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
• Many felt failure to comply was tantamount to breaking the law.
  — Fortune, 27 May 2022
• The 13-day layoff was not tantamount to a vacation, Brooks said.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 24 Jan. 2021
• By the way: In light of our comment above, about this series more or less being tantamount to Netflix’s own Game of Thrones?
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 22 Dec. 2021
• The charge against him is tantamount in legal terms to espionage and is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
  — Sopheng Cheang, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2018
• For those Republicans -- and Manchin -- what Schumer did in his speech was tantamount to running in front of them and spiking the ball in their face.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 8 Oct. 2021
• For many people living on a few acres of some of the cheapest land in the country, that’s tantamount to an eviction notice.
  — Bill Heavey, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
• Over the subsequent days, remembrances ran through my feed in waves of grief that felt tantamount to the passing of a celebrity.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles Ismail Muhammad Kim Tingley Benoit Denizet-Lewis Sam Anderson Jazmine Hughes Irina Aleksander Sasha Weiss Rowan Ricardo Phillips Stella Bugbee Michael Paterniti Maggie Jones Robert Draper Rob Hoerburger Jason Zengerle Reginald Dwayne Betts Jane Hu David Marchese Hanif Abdurraqib Jenna Wortham Anthony Giardina Niela Orr Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2021
• What if the one-year hiatus turns into what is tantamount to a forced retirement?
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
• What is an annoyance for must of us is tantamount to a crime for audiophiles.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 13 May 2021
• In that district, winning the May GOP runoff is probably tantamount to winning the seat.
  — Arnessa Garrett, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2020
• Sanders will be talking to voters with Tlaib, though Tlaib said that was not tantamount to an endorsement.
  — cleveland, 17 Oct. 2019
• This team had taken a step back, and in the competitive AFC, that was perceived as tantamount to a death sentence.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
• That means screening for Barrett’s is tantamount to screening for esophageal cancer.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
• Narrowing down such an enormous field to four films for just four Fridays in October 2024 was tantamount to torture.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024