Sentence examples for truly amount to from inspiring English sources

The old bulb is gone now and the smaller bulbs do not truly amount to much in the garden setting.

Large tomato plants usually take a week or so to get settled in the garden before they truly amount to anything.

That would well and truly amount to a global entitlement program, costing upfront hundreds of billions over the next few years, and predictably fringed with a self-reinforcing bureaucracy, special interests and market-wrecking pitfalls that could in the end make subprime mortgages look small.

In a series of interviews for the special, "Paul McCartney in Red Square," on A&E tonight, 40-ish and 50-ish Russians who grew up in that era -- including playwrights, musicians, cultural commentators and government officials -- recall an idolatry for a British rock band that truly amounted to cultural revolution.

Lost in this faux debate is the reality that our debt now looms so large because the government had to bail out many of those same corporations, quite a few of which, like General Electric and AIG, pay no taxes and have no problem paying truly obscene amounts to their top executives.

Yet the latter is truly misbegotten; it amounts to a monumental waste of political energies and resources against the wrong target.

By the time Adlington was Chloe's age, swimming was her passion, her obsession, and the object of what, in an otherwise ordinary girl, the youngest of three daughters from an ordinary Mansfield family, amounted to truly extraordinary willpower.

It was not possible to propose a truly null amount, so an amount very close to zero was proposed.

Such breast-beating amounts to a truly irrational demand: that the present abolish itself, making way for a return to the past.

In a small rural community such as this, where minute fluctuations in the timetable of the weekly mobile library service pass for excitement, the fascinating spectacle of watching the old red telephone kiosk being winched from its prominent spot in the village square by a team of BT workers and an electronic hoist amounted to a truly noteworthy event.

Either Mr Obama has a truly astonishing amount of money to spend (possible), or he is changing his spending priorities.