Examples of “evaluate” in a Sentence

verb To carefully judge the value, quality, or significance of something.

• Before buying the house, we asked a surveyor to evaluate its condition.
• The teacher evaluated each essay against a strict rubric.
• Doctors evaluated the patient's symptoms before diagnosis.

verb (mathematics/computing) To work out the numeric value of an expression.

• When you press enter, the spreadsheet evaluates the formula in that cell.
• To evaluate this expression, first work out the part in brackets.
• The calculator evaluates the formula and returns a result.