Approximate has 4 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | What's their approximate worth? | |
| 2. | His witness is approximate to the truth. | |
| 3. | We can only know her approximate age. | |
| 4. | While the car driver obtains an approximate view of a blooming meadow the city cyclist notices the different colors and scents of the blossoms, the smell of freshly mown grass, the swoosh of leaves of a chestnut tree, the sunlight twinkling through trees shimmering green in springtime. | |
| 5. | This will give you an approximate idea of the situation. | |
| 6. | This is only an approximate value. | |
| 7. | All numbers are approximate. | |
| 8. | The finite element method enables us to find approximate solutions of partial differential equations. | |
| 9. | This is all very approximate. | |
| 10. | Scientists are now using a genetic approach to estimate the ages of corals. The method determines when a coral egg and sperm originally met to form the genome of a coral colony. The researchers then track the number of mutations that have accumulated in the genome since that time. Because mutations tend to arise at a relatively constant rate, researchers can estimate the approximate age of the coral genomes in their study. |