CALCULATE in a Sentence

Learn CALCULATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
198 example sentences for CALCULATE, such as:
1. I calculated that he would arrive at midnight.
2. She would not calculate, she would not compare.
3. A calculated, cast up, balanced, and proved house.
4. We calculate it will scarcely last till it is eighteen.
5. Take a hundred and twenty values and calculate the mean.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CALCULATE
calculate
 v.  judge to be probable
 v.  keep an account of
Classic Sentence: (137 in 10 pages)
1  We calculate it will scarcely last till it is eighteen.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  They calculate the year by the revolution of the sun and moon, but use no subdivisions into weeks.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IX.
3  She would not calculate, she would not compare.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  It had been ascertained at the shipping offices that Browner had left aboard of the May Day, and I calculate that she is due in the Thames to-morrow night.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
5  Once received, it is a haunting idea; how many undesigning persons I suspected of watching me, it would be hard to calculate.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVI
6  "'Tis a safe thing to calculate on the knavery of an Iroquois," said the scout, throwing his rifle forward, by a sort of instinctive movement.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
7  During the whole of that day they struggled on through the defiles, and by evening they calculated that they were more than thirty miles from their enemies.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
8  A calculated, cast up, balanced, and proved house.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
9  His countenance was therefore fully displayed, and its expression was calculated to impress a degree of awe, if not of fear, upon strangers.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  The kings of the Norman race, and the independent nobles, who followed their example in all acts of tyranny, maintained against this devoted people a persecution of a more regular, calculated, and self-interested kind.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  These were calculated in some degree to abate the dangers of the day; a precaution the more necessary, as the conflict was to be maintained with sharp swords and pointed lances.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  All that was beautiful and graceful in the martial array had disappeared, and what was now visible was only calculated to awake terror or compassion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  Hilda had calculated the turn into the lane at the bridge-end.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
14  The new mare proved a treasure; with a very little trouble she became exactly calculated for the purpose, and Fanny was then put in almost full possession of her.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  Her disposition was peculiarly calculated to value a fond treatment, and from having hitherto known so little of it, she was the more overcome by Miss Crawford's.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
Example Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  A simple mathematical formula has been devised to allow you to calculate the interest due.
2  From this you can calculate the total mass in the Galaxy.
3  We can calculate the price per unit along the following lines: However, this only yields an average selling price.
4  If you get lost in the desert,calculate your direction by the sun and keep moving,then you're sure to get somewhere.
5  You'll need to calculate how much time the assignment will take.
6  Take a hundred and twenty values and calculate the mean.
7  We must first calculate the effect of this change on the resource column.
8  In a vacillating economy it is impossible to calculate resource allotment.
9  The scientist could not calculate when the spaceship would reach the Jupiter.
10  Conservationists calculate that hundreds of species could be lost in this area.
11  He can tell you how to measure and calculate residential square footage.
12  The second phase of the trial restarts a legal juggernaut that could saddle the energy giant with the largest environmental penalty in U.S. history, and calculate the amount of crude oil that spewed from the crippled well.
13  The amount is calculated according to the number of years you have paid into the scheme.
14  I calculated that he would arrive at midnight.
15  This advertisement is calculated to attract the attention of housewives.