Example Sentences

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I didn’t want it to seem like my vanity or self-indulgence was subtracting from the emotion of the story.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2020

Over and over I tried to subtract the numbers, but I didn’t want to do it on paper because I didn’t want Mom and Dad to know I was subtracting, so it was hard.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

Adding is a division of three and one and that would make four if all of adding was subtracting.

From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Stein, Gertrude