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Short sentences using amounts

But it amounts to that. [5]
This almost amounts to bigamy. [5]

Sentences containing amounts two or more times

Be sure that they contain the creditors' names, their residences, the amounts due each, the debtors' names, their residences, and the amounts they owe, also all property and where located. [7]

More example sentences with the word amounts in them

Do they see what this amounts to? [6]
To usurp a usurpation--that is all it amounts to, isn't it? [5]
Two months salary to you two officers amounts altogether to $2,400--about one-eighth of your ten per cent. [5]
The number amounts to just one hundred and eighty-four. [7]
The gauge of this was his power, and the amounts he could command in an emergency. [4]
Further boiled down, this vast outpouring of malice amounts to simply this: one jest from the Tribune (one can make nothing more serious than that out of it. [5]
As bearing on the question of your coming home, I do not think the raid into Pennsylvania amounts to anything at all. [7]
They eat, and that is all; though it is true General Butler is feeding the whites also by the thousand; for it nearly amounts to a famine there. [7]
From this new sum total the amounts already paid to the Fishers were deducted, and then the cheerful remainder (a fraction under forty thousand dollars) was handed to then and again they retired to Florida in a condition of temporary tranquillity. [5]
Generally speaking, he prefers bright tints to darker ones, but his likes and dislikes are capricious, and with regard to some colors his antipathy amounts to positive horror. [6]
None of those places I gave you amounts to anything? [8]
A single improbable or absurd story amounts to very little, but when half a dozen such stories are told about the same individual or the same event, they begin to produce the effect of credible evidence. [6]
That amounts to one-fortieth of our total population. [5]
The great multitude of mankind care more for two and two, something definite, a fixed quantity, than for _a_ + _b's_ and _x^{2's}_,--symbols used for undetermined amounts and indefinite possibilities. [6]
Dryfoos owns the magazine; he can stop it, or he can stop us, which amounts to the same thing, as far as we're concerned. [8]
If, at last, it amounts to anything at all, Congress gives it to them. [7]
In every light in which we can view this question, it amounts simply to this: Shall we accept our share of the proceeds under Mr. Clay's bill, or shall we rather reject that and get nothing? [7]
This amounts to ignorance, and will impair the world's respect for him. [5]
This amounts to idiocy, and once the damaging fact is established, thoughtful people will cease to look up to him, the sentimental will cease to fondle him. [5]
Mr. Meigs--they have gone riding with Mr. Meigs--says the Maine government ought to have a Maine law that amounts to something--one that will protect the forests, and start up some trees on the coast. [4]
I think Jackson's game--his assigned work--now is to magnify the accounts of his numbers and reports of his movements, and thus by constant alarms keep three or four times as many of our troops away from Richmond as his own force amounts to. [7]
It will be found that no charge in the remaining part of the resolution, if true, amounts to the violation of the Bank charter, except one, which I will notice in due time. [7]
Consider what a fifth part of the reading-matter of an American daily paper issued in a city of one hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants amounts to! [5]
That clock hardly ever knows what time it is; and when it does know, it lies about it--which amounts to the same thing. [5]
This amounts to deception, and will injure him for the Sunday-schools. [5]
Shot his own brother-- amounts to same thing, doesn't it? [11]
The whole offense, boiled down, amounts to just this: one uncourteous remark of the Tribune about my book--not me between Nov. 1 and Dec. 20; and a couple of foreign criticisms (of my writings, not me,) between Nov. 1 and Jan. 26! [5]
But I ask attention to a few more views bearing on the question of whether it amounts to a satisfactory answer. [7]
Her freight bill, at 3 cents a bushel, amounts to $18,000. [5]
I suppose it amounts to that. [5]
These people's familiarity amounts to impudence, sometimes. [5]
Deduct from these amounts the amount of the principal of the public debt redeemed and the amount of issues in substitution therefor, and the actual cash operations of the Treasury were: receipts, $884,076,646.57; disbursements, $865,234,087.86; which leaves a cash balance in the Treasury of $18,842,558.71. [7]
I know we all take things--that is to be expected--but really, I have never taken anything, certainly in England, that amounts to any great thing. [5]
There is not a tree of any kind in the deserts, for hundreds of miles--there is no vegetation at all in a regular desert, except the sage-brush and its cousin the "greasewood," which is so much like the sage-brush that the difference amounts to little. [5]
The banks aggregate a capital of $3,000,000, and the wholesale jobbing trade of the town amounts to $50,000,000 a year. [5]

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