Example Sentences

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Crawford was calculating how to further improvise on using her food budget wisely.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2025

One challenge was calculating how many rolls of paper were needed.

From NewsForKids.net • Feb. 20, 2024

That’s all I was doing was calculating . . . because I was just done.

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2021

The company also said it was calculating the profits based on the lodging industry’s accounting standards.

From New York Times • May 24, 2017

When Napoleon was calculating how to get sugar without having to fight the English fleet, a couple of beet-sugar factories had begun operating around Europe.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson