EQUATE in a Sentence

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28 example sentences for EQUATE, such as:

1. Rainforests occur around the equator.
2. Most Americans equate success with wealth and fame.
3. They seem to equate intelligent belief with credulity.
4. This figure is reached by a fiendishly clever equation.
5. The tick escaped from Tom, presently, and crossed the equator.

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 Meanings and Examples of EQUATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
equate
 v.  make equal or equivalent; reduce to a standard or an average; equalize
Classic Sentence:
1  The tick escaped from Tom, presently, and crossed the equator.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  "An island situated on the other side of the equator, at least two thousand leagues from here," replied the count.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
3  Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
4  The dull light fell more faintly upon the page whereon another equation began to unfold itself slowly and to spread abroad its widening tail.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  This equation does not give us the value of the unknown factor but gives us a ratio between two unknowns.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER II
6  Only then, expressing known historic facts by equations and comparing the relative significance of this factor, can we hope to define the unknown.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER II
Example Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  I'm always wary of men wearing suits, as I equate this with power and authority.
2  You can't equate the education system of Britain to that of Germany.
3  He complained that there was a tendency to equate right-wing politics with self-interest.
4  They seem to equate intelligent belief with credulity.
5  Men who are effeminate for what ever reason do not equate to being homosexual.
6  "We equate this leap in engine technology as equivalent to the post-World War II jump from propeller driven aircraft to jet engines," Brink said.
7  Most Americans equate success with wealth and fame.
8  I pass through the summer which the winter and the equator are filled with joy rush toward you to like.
9  Rainforests occur around the equator.
10  The Northern Hemisphere is the part of the world north of the equator, and the Southern Hemisphere is south of the equator.
11  Singapore is near the equator; it is warm even in winter.
12  Any of the imaginary lines representing degrees of latitude that encircle the earth parallel to the plane of the equator.
13  But local attorney Bill Risner raises a potential problem for Scott on the governance side of the conflict equation.
14  This figure is reached by a fiendishly clever equation.
15  The equation is simple: research breeds new products.