Example Sentences

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It wasn't like I am calculating that I'm going to do this, and get all this airplay, and make millions of dollars and be this successful guy.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2021

When you see me scribbling I am calculating the potency of the dark fate that overhangs me and trying to estimate when if ever the cloud will pass.

From Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Nicholson, Meredith

"I am calculating how many ministers get their living in a nest like that, and how comfortable it is for a fellow if he just studies theology."

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann

I am calculating my horoscope for this day.

From The Saracen: The Holy War by Shea, Robert

I am calculating on your using all your ability in studying the influence of color on color, and in mixing pure colors to make gray.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh