Example sentences for: tallies

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

  • 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.

  • Time 's cover profile of Madeleine Albright defends her Kosovo policy from charges of poor planning and incoherence, and tallies her successes instead: She consolidated European support for airstrikes at Rambouillet, has deftly cultivated consensus among NATO's member countries, and is drafting a "mini-Marshall Plan" to restore stability to the Balkans.

  • 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 tallies the partisan wins and losses in this year's federal budget wars and declares President Clinton the clear victor.

  • 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.


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