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  • A large amount? (13)
  • You ask, What amount? (10)
  • He named the amount of his donation. (10)
  • It rather added to his amount of dignity. (10)
  • It would diminish the amount of criticism. (16)
  • A certain amount you must have to be a man. (10)
  • I told you the amount of alloy in my motives. (10)
  • Cost of the building less the amount borrowed. (17)
  • Five and twenty thousand pounds was the amount. (10)
  • Photographs really amount to nothing in such a case. (9)
  • The amount of the sum gratified Weyburn, she could see. (10)
  • What does all that work of his on the East Side amount to? (9)
  • I will simply consider it as an advance in the total amount. (18)
  • Potts was ready for any amount of trouble; Mallard the same. (10)
  • Some men would think that a quality worth double the amount. (10)
  • The amount was the same as usual, but it gave me quite a shock. (8)
  • That amount he tendered to Harry Latters, who took it most coolly. (10)
  • That amount he tendered to Harry Latters, who took it most coolly. (22)
  • Franko looked naturally astonished at this amount of self-sacrifice. (10)
  • He had had no idea that his uncle was worth anything like that amount. (13)
  • It can be secured for a small amount by addressing the Museum as above. (3)
  • These managers controlled a large amount of the theatrical advertising. (16)
  • He got through a vast amount of work, only soother of the nerves he knew. (8)
  • As no attention was paid to this amount of plain-speaking, Pat made a bolt. (10)
  • No amount of sponging would get the stains away from my horrid red eyelids. (10)
  • The amount of his tip assuaged the deprecation and surprise of the head-waiter. (12)
  • The power to give and take flattery to any amount is the rare treasure of youth. (10)
  • Evan looked as proud as if he had just clapped down the full amount on the table. (10)
  • A desire for unbridled fun had hold of any amount of it, to excess in any direction. (10)
  • You have there a man in whom Gawd [He points upward] takes quite an amount of stock. (8)
  • No amount of practice in the conservatory or concert room can obtain this embouchure. (21)
  • Poor Hopgood, the amount of information she saddles him with in the course of the day! (8)
  • The consequence is, that everything depends upon the amount of courage she possesses. (10)
  • They muddle through with the greatest possible amount of unnecessary labour and suffering! (8)
  • The amount of water which is added to make the mixture of concrete should not be too much. (17)
  • His wife, whatever her conduct, had clear eyes and an almost depressing amount of common sense. (8)
  • He hinted that to build even on this charming spot a certain amount of capital would be needed. (13)
  • Count the amount that makes for each word of a letter a marvel of brevity, considering the purport! (10)
  • Their reply was to estimate an immoderate amount of liquor as due to them, with profound composure. (10)
  • Any amount of work can be performed by careful feeders: it is the stomach that kills the Englishman. (10)
  • An approximate idea of the age can be gained by the amount of turn-over of the upper edge of the ear. (21)
  • With these words he turned his back upon her, and the clown brought the amount of wages which was due. (5)
  • This capital would be in good securities and would amount, let us say, to three hundred thousand marks. (12)
  • All his caution was spent in being secured of the real amount of her fortune, before he committed himself. (4)
  • But things being as they are, even ten times the amount that satisfies his greed would be inconsiderable. (12)
  • The amount of wine in the decanter did not promise to sustain the starry roof of night and greet the dawn. (10)
  • With that amount of money, he could plant his feet firmly on the earth and prepare to spring still higher. (13)
  • These cargoes enriched Milling & FitzMaurice to the amount of 800,000 pounds sterling while the war lasted. (18)
  • If he would only learn that the value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it! (8)
  • She came to me with the cheque it enclosed, and asked me to get it cashed for her; it was for a handsome amount. (9)
  • Knowing the quantity of heat lost per hour, a radiator must be installed which will supply this amount per hour. (17)
  • The maximum amount of sand to be used is generally governed by the ease of working, and not so much by the strength. (17)
  • Yet, as a whole, the document was singularly simple, almost bare in its disposition of a very large amount of money. (13)
  • These knots have a certain amount of pitch in them, which will penetrate through any oil paint and leave an ugly mark. (17)
  • For no amount of truth now could save those hapless victims of greed who had lost their lives in the wretched building. (13)
  • Gratitude to the person soothing his unwontedly ruffled temper was the cause of the indiscretion in the amount he gave. (10)
  • For a number of years before the world war the amount of foreign news in the average American newspaper was very limited. (16)
  • Barto sneered indolently at this fresh evidence of the small amount of intelligence which he could ever learn from others. (10)
  • Having planned to put this amount into the bank, he could let it lie in their hands, as a loan, until the bank was established. (18)
  • Let him not make the common mistake of measuring the value of a department by the amount of related advertising that it attracts. (16)
  • In every town the circus exhibits, there, too, is the representative of the American Surety Company, prepared with surety for any amount. (21)
  • To economize in the use of paper during the war, many papers have reduced the number of pages by cutting down the amount of reading matter. (16)
  • There was the usual amount of fencing with the combative Laura, who gave ground at all points, and as she was separating, said (so sweetly!) (10)
  • They have come to write, and with the effect to increase the amount of little-digging, which rather superabounded in our literary criticism before. (9)
  • He was rated as an energetic fellow, a little indefinite in aim, with the smallest amount of inspiration that can save a man from being commonplace. (9)
  • Accurate information straight from writers serving the public—that, I cannot too often repeat, is worth more to him than any amount of obsequious praise. (16)
  • Her present mood was a craving for excitement; for incident, wild action, the primitive machinery of our species; any amount of theatrical heroics, pathos, and clown-gabble. (10)
  • Out of confusion worse confounded, order and convenience speedily reassert themselves, and the tremendous amount of preparation for the exhibition is rushed to wonderfully quick completion. (21)

Also see sentences for: aggregate, example, quantity, sum, total.

Definition of amount:

  • amount, a-mownt’, v.i. to mount or rise to: to result in: to come in meaning or substance to (with to_). | n. the whole sum: the effect or result. (0)

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