Example sentences for: tallies

How can you use “tallies” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After presenting various systems of communication (signs, pictographs, rebuses, shorthand, tallies, Babylonian clay tokens, Peruvian quipus), Robinson discusses such ancient and now defunct but decipherable writing systems as Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Minoan Greek Linear B, and Mayan glyphs; ditto some of the more outstanding conundra awaiting decipherment--Cretan Linear A, Proto-Elamite, Etruscan, and the Easter Island and Indus scripts.

  • An article tallies the early achievements of Minnesota Gov.

  • Explanations: The Wall Street Journal tallies Barton's trading losses; the Atlanta Journal-Constitution points to the trend of workplace violence ; and the Washington Post blames loose gun laws .

  • The NYT goes no further than quoting Carter as saying he'd observed stuffed ballot-boxes and inflated vote tallies.

  • Newspapers everywhere led on Tuesday's ruinous Turkish earthquake, where the latest tallies show more than 6,300 dead and at least 20,000 injured.


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