Amounted

Sam stood in the doorway; his expression amounted to one big disapproving frown. ❋ Rhonda Pollero (2009)

Palin's careless use of the term amounted to trivializing the historical tragedy of the ❋ Unknown (2011)

He complained after a reporter described him in an article as a "double espresso of a politician," suggesting that the term amounted to an anti-Italian slur. ❋ By MICHAEL BARBARO (2010)

-- and that was about all that a title amounted to anyway. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)

When Michel kept repeating what in French amounted to "banana pants" slip, a masculine noun, means "underwear" I got the clue that he was only pulling the waitress's leg. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Philosophical literature in English amounted to a few monographs and a single collection of papers devoted solely, or largely, to questions to do with terrorism. ❋ Primoratz, Igor (2007)

Abul Gheit at the time said the call amounted to "unacceptable interference" in Egyptian affairs. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Snowe seemed taken aback by Card's intransigence, and the call amounted to "a net step backward" for the White House, said a source outside Snowe's office. ❋ Glenn Greenwald (2006)

IFPYB spokesman Dlangezwa Mvelafe said the call amounted to an intimidation tactic and a loss of vision by the ANC. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Commenting on affordability of housing, Absa said in the third quarter of this year the monthly repayment on a new 80 per cent bond for a medium-sized house over a 20-year term amounted to R2125 against R1757 in the third quarter of 1994. ❋ Unknown (1995)

These appalling massacres continued for more than three days and three nights, till the number of the slain amounted to 1300. ❋ Unknown (1904)

Another time I was sitting beside the road, trying to get out of a very long, wet, awkward pair of wading-stockings, an occupation which is unfavourable to tranquillity of mind, when a man came up to me in the dusk and accosted me with an absence of politeness which in German amounted to an insult. ❋ Henry Van Dyke (1892)

Her proposition, put into plain English, amounted to this: 'Take me and marry me without my father's consent, -- and then you and I together can rob my father of the money which, for his own purposes, he has settled upon me.' ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)

Knowing that the prison term amounted to a death sentence, Volpendesto asked the judge for leniency. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The call amounted to "unacceptable interference in Egypt's affairs," he said. ❋ Unknown (2011)