Sample sentences for ASSESS - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
assess the situation

Definition

consider something and make a judgment

assessed = considered and set

Other Uses (with this meaning)

assessing = considering and judging

"I don't like it, Atticus, I don't like it at all," was Aunt Alexandra's assessment of these events.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

assessment = judgment after consideration

As she questioned me, she studied what I wore, assessing the fabric and appraising the cost of each item and making a judgment about my taste in general.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle

assessing = considering and judging

Tomorrow your skills will be assessed, and you'll be assigned to your permanent squads.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

assessed = considered and evaluated

And we can begin to assess whether any are missing.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park

assess = consider and make a judgment of

This assessment of my skills from Peeta takes me totally by surprise.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

assessment = judgment of something after consideration

Ignoring the captain's assessment, Phillips had enlisted in the air corps, where he'd proven to be a born airman.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

assessment = judgment after consideration

He turned to assess the situation and watched as its full body sloshed out onto the ground.
James Dashner -- The Death Cure

assess = consider and make a judgment of

I asked with anxious foreboding, and before they could reply, I assessed the damage from across the room.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

assessed = considered and evaluated

2 —as in:
assess a fee

Definition

charge a tax, fine, or fee

assessed = charged a tax, fine, or fee

To Henriet Cousin, master executor of the high works of justice in Paris, the sum of sixty sols parisis, to him assessed and ordained by monseigneur the provost of Paris, for having bought, by order of the said sieur the provost, a great broad sword, serving to execute and decapitate persons who are by justice condemned for their demerits, and he hath caused the same to be garnished with a sheath and with all things thereto appertaining; and hath likewise caused to be repointed and...
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

assessed = charged

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