Sentence examples for might approximate from inspiring English sources

"Where's Luciana's husband?" I asked her adviser, looking round for someone who might approximate to the male equivalent of a politician's wife.

It seemed as if Gaga could now, at age thirty, be aiming for a more anodyne omnipresence — a prosaic, inarguable appeal that might approximate Adele's.

Characters reveal themselves through dialogue, but dialogue is not necessarily a verbatim reproduction of everyday speech, even though it might approximate to it.

The idea that Anthony and Stoudemire might approximate the harmonious partnership of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade has never seemed more outlandish.

I liked the idea of sour cream, but had only butter, which might approximate the dairy element and soften any pungency in the fish, much like the milk my parents soaked the fillets in.

Ida wouldn't have minded seeing him, to shake hands maybe, to perform some soft footwork that might approximate closure, but Roy had apparently made his decision, and soon some sweethearts from the office came for his things, operating with a list, leaving behind only an old pair of shoes.

However, the pseudo-static model highly simplifies and contains many assumptions that might not approximate the reality in various situations (Jibson 2007).

We believe that the changes in the in vitro experimental conditions might better approximate the in vivo conditions.

A triangular distribution, while seldom appearing in nature, might effectively approximate someone's beliefs, and has the advantage for pedagogic purposes of allowing calculations using polynomial algebra.

Furthermore, for most cities in our analysis, the city-specific STD rates we obtained were derived from county data and might only approximate data for city jurisdictions.

If Hillary Clinton had held every Cabinet position in her husband's Administration and controlled every appointment, her influence might have approximated Pompadour's at the height of her power.