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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ukrainization, in Putin’s estimation, was a weapon of war.
    Noah Rothman, National Review, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The utility contends that the faulty bills were the result of a mass estimation process, not the meter readers.
    Heather Gann | Hgann@al.com, 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
  • So in your estimation, what made Manifest the one to pull it off some 8 years later?
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Kevin Chalfant is a very fine singer, and in my estimation, underrated in the world of pop singers.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2024
  • In my estimation, about 20% of the audience that filled the residence’s chapel was made up of arts lovers who do not live at the Towers.
    Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2022
  • That your friend has an estimation of the restaurant that is not as favorable as yours.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • On Monday’s episode, Bolton was in fifth place out of the initial 11 candidates in the judges’ estimation.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Our guy is an alien (a blue one even, though by my estimation, a little more cyborg than, say, Navi).
    Andy Andersen, Vulture, 3 May 2024
  • Asian Americans are the most socially conservative Americans, in Yoo’s estimation, given to high rates of small-business ownership and church attendance and low rates of divorce.
    Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024

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