Example Sentences

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Auditors are often tasked with traveling to the middle of nowhere and tallying up a large amount of unusual things, from chickens and pigs to quarry rocks, corn, traffic lights and telephone poles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

It was after tallying my December spending that I finally deleted them cold turkey in January.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2026

She scored 24 while tallying six rebounds, three assists, three steals and two blocks.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

Fire crews have started tallying the damage, with early reports of at least 20 houses destroyed in the small town of Ruffy, about two hours' drive north of state capital Melbourne.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

When tallying numbers, the Babylonians arranged them into columns, as children learn to do today.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann