How to Use approximation in a Sentence

approximation

noun

• The color of the paint isn't the exact same color as the vase, but it's a close approximation.
• This isn't an exact figure but I think it's a good approximation of what the land is worth.
• There is no game code here, no real rules; just an approximation of what should happen next, a machine’s memory of Minecraft.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
• However, its numbers have proven accurate in previous conflicts and provide at least a rough approximation of the total death count.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 4 Oct. 2024
• And harder to see is the skull behind the face; an X-ray is at best an approximation.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• This one is a close approximation, though any rugged button-down from the back of the closet might do.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 2 Aug. 2023
• For two minutes at a time, the artist brought Sudan—or, at least, a 3-D approximation of him—back to life.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2021
• For those who came of age after the Brat Pack reign, there’s no close approximation.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 13 June 2024
• Bankman-Fried: The one-two step is just an approximation.
  — Brendan Doherty, Forbes, 16 May 2021
• The pin on the map below shows an approximation of where the car was located.
  — Joseph Geha, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2017
• You might be swept slightly off-balance by this movie, which is a fair approximation of how Ali and Ava feel most of the time.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• The same approximation also holds for the moon, Banerdt notes.
  — National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019
• This was the inverse-Laplace-transform part of the researchers’ framework, the approximation of the function of past time.
  — Wired, 17 Feb. 2019
• In the new world, there will be, to a rough approximation, zero living coral reefs.
  — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2022
• This is, of course, a rough approximation of the present debate over policing.
  — Longreads, 22 Jan. 2018
• My approximation of Carey’s omelet proved to have a good, eggy profile.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
• The fact that eBooks can only be read by one patron at a time puts me back in an approximation of a public space.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 1 May 2024
• Lumbly does a good approximation of the trademark rasp.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• This is the scientific method, to ask this tricky question and find a way to get a good approximation to an answer to it.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2022
• The group plans to go back to court to force the local government to return the land to its original state or some approximation.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• Still, the Yankees have seen this before, or at least a close approximation.
  — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2016
• Wright, who probably brings the closest approximation to Rodriguez’s mix of size and skillset, is as good a guess as any.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 9 Aug. 2022
• The shooting rips the viewer out of this fantasia into the real world, or at least an approximation of it, and sets the tone for what this show will be.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 9 June 2022
• Make a rough approximation of the mass of the spacecraft and the rocket equation to estimate the total mass of fuel in the rocket along with the exhaust speed.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 31 May 2018
• The consensus seemed to be that the American model, or some approximation of it, was the answer to the world's problems.
  — John C. “chuck” Chalberg, Star Tribune, 23 Jan. 2021
• The idea was to experience an approximation of Olive’s Maine and perhaps to gain insights along the way.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• Its background color, if not a spot-on match, is at least a close approximation to Tiffany’s iconic robin’s-egg blue.
  — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2021
• But what emerged from all the activity was an approximation of the state of play here in the state that will host the lead-off primary in a little over six months’ time.
  — Philip Elliott / Portsmouth, Time, 16 July 2019
• The black lines on the map show median values for land and, in effect, serve as approximations of where coastlines are.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2019
• The children’s section of the Bronx Zoo features a human-sized pair of fennec-fox ears that give an approximation of the fox’s hearing.
  — Chris Hayes, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024