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
• The Act is tantamount to a ban since there is no near-term plan for such a separation.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 17 Jan. 2025
• 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
• This would be tantamount to saying that Jack London was first and foremost a sailor.
  — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Trying to convince these teens that the goods are not worth stealing seems tantamount to giving up.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
• 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
• This decision is tantamount to nullifying the statute and is very unlikely to be upheld in court.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
• His decision appalled the left, who see backing the bill as tantamount to offering a free hand to Trump and his deeply controversial ally Elon Musk.
  — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 15 Mar. 2025