Synonyms

1. estimate

Sentence Examples

1. Sancho spent the afternoon in drawing up certain ordinances relating to the good government of what he fancied the island and he ordained that there were to be no provision hucksters in the State, and that men might import wine into it from any place they pleased, provided they declared the quarter it came from, so that a price might be put upon it according to its quality, reputation, and the estimation it was held in and he that watered his wine, or changed the name, was to forfeit his life for it.
2. The smells affirmed my estimation of the place as some sort of bake shop.
3. In my estimation, the only feeling worse than this would be giving in to my desire for Connor, and the inevitability of my heart being smashed to pieces.
4. None of the would-be suitors were up to her high standards because they were, in her estimation, also boring.
5. A small, low door gave egress from the walled space we have been describing into the projected street, the ground having been abandoned as unproductive by its various renters, and had now fallen so completely in general estimation as to return not even the one-half per cent it had originally paid.
6. but if she be as virtuous as thou believest, it is an uncalled-for proceeding to make trial of truth itself, for, after trial, it will but be in the same estimation as before.
7. The fact Alec had asked everyone to leave gave her hope she was right in her estimation of him.
8. Consider, then, Anselmo my friend, that Camilla is a diamond of the finest quality as well in thy estimation as in that of others, and that it is contrary to reason to expose her to the risk of being broken for if she remains intact she cannot rise to a higher value than she now possesses and if she give way and be unable to resist, bethink thee now how thou wilt be deprived of her, and with what good reason thou wilt complain of thyself for having been the cause of her ruin and thine own.
9. It seemed, in her estimation, what one really needed was a sufficiently complex system through which the Oracle could fall into a trance and access some hidden part of themselves.
10. The very circumstances which inflict on you, as a principal in the tragic scene enacted here, such painful emotions, are to me, on the contrary, a source of something like contentment, and serve but to enhance the value of this dwelling in my estimation.