Sample sentences for TANTAMOUNT

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Definition

being essentially equal to something

Her statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt.

I cannot make your consciousness tantamount to mine.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
For Flask to have presumed to help himself, this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree.
Melville, Herman -- Moby Dick I-LXVII
To have been indifferent to the companionship of the single gentleman would have been tantamount to being gifted with nerves of steel.
Dickens, Charles -- The Old Curiosity Shop
My not returning would simply have been tantamount to my saying to M.
James, Henry -- The American
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Mahatma Gandhi
it was tantamount in him—to a paternal benediction on our union, accompanied with a gush of tears.
Dickens, Charles -- Our Mutual Friend
That would be tantamount to admitting a mistake, and the military doesn't do that either."
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
Is that tantamount, sir, to acceptance, or rejection, or consideration?
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
He could write the account Charlie wanted, but to do so would be tantamount to admitting to himself that he would never write another novel.
Stephen King -- Misery
Madame de Bellegarde gave a glance at her son which seemed tantamount to an injunction to be silent and leave her to her own devices.
Henry James -- The American
I have taxed my father with it, and obtained from him what I consider tantamount to a denial.
George Bernard Shaw -- Mrs. Warren's Profession
He understood that such an admission, for her, was tantamount to a shouted declaration of devotion from other women.
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
Not often did Marley have the opportunity to look down at me. and having me prone like that was tantamount to an invitation.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
That's tantamount to an invitation when he's dead.'
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
In a case like this the recommendation is tantamount to a verdict, but remains secret, as a part of the proceedings of the Praesidium.
John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
Which was tantamount to asking: How many boys have entered the square yard beyond the Great Hall and returned as gunslinger apprentices?
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
Refusing to break Welsh's bones was tantamount to killing his daughter.
Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
This was said in a way that was tantamount to declaring that no daughter of his ever should become the wife of the person in question.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
It would almost be tantamount to pounding his own son to death.
Stephen King -- The Shining

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