CALCULATION in a Sentence

Learn CALCULATION 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 CALCULATION, such as:
1. Our guess was confirmed by calculation.
2. Then I had a way of checking my calculation.
3. Her whole behavior is calculated for effect.
4. I calculated that he would arrive at midnight.
5. But, Mrs. Sparsit was wrong in her calculation.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CALCULATION
calculation
 n.  problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
 n.  the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods
Classic Sentence: (137 in 10 pages)
1  It is a simple calculation enough, though there is no use my boring you with figures.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  Then I had a way of checking my calculation.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
3  As to Tom, he was becoming that not unprecedented triumph of calculation which is usually at work on number one.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
4  You are not impulsive, you are not romantic, you are accustomed to view everything from the strong dispassionate ground of reason and calculation.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
5  But, Mrs. Sparsit was wrong in her calculation.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
6  But the telegraph posts upon this line are sixty yards apart, and the calculation is a simple one.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
7  But, fortunately, Musgrave, who had begun to appreciate the meaning of my proceedings, and who was now as excited as myself, took out his manuscript to check my calculation.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
8  It is for that reason I am delighted to see you," continued the abbe, "although you have disturbed me in a most important calculation, which, if it succeeded, would possibly change Newton's system.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners.
9  Another, older and less strong than he, had attempted what he had not had sufficient resolution to undertake, and had failed only because of an error in calculation.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian.
10  That which I had done by the impulse of my best feelings produced the same effect as though it had been the result of calculation.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood.
11  After finishing that calculation, I had a minute's hope.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 113. The Past.
12  I should not have been averse to do so, but that I imagined I detected trouble, and calculation relative to the extent of the cold meat, in Mrs. Micawber's eye.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
13  These sums, united, make a total, if my calculation is correct, amounting to forty-one, ten, eleven and a half.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
14  His business calculation that there was a certain price below which he could not sell certain grain was forgotten too.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 2
15  A rapid calculation showed Ethan that Zeena could not be back at the farm before the following evening.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  I spent hours doing that calculation and I still got the answer wrong.
2  These days, scientists use computers to help them to get out the difficult calculation concerned with space travel.
3  There's an element of calculation in his behaviour that makes me distrust him.
4  Our guess was confirmed by calculation.
5  Perhaps you have made a mistake in your calculation.
6  The accuracy of equivalent circuit method can be effectively improved if the calculation of PM leakage permeance is accurate.
7  A student over sixteen reckons as two under eleven in the calculation of school building costs.
8  The calculation and the hope is that North Korea's nuclear program is really a diplomatic gambit, designed to extract economic and political concessions.
9  The amount is calculated according to the number of years you have paid into the scheme.
10  I calculated that he would arrive at midnight.
11  This advertisement is calculated to attract the attention of housewives.
12  Her whole behavior is calculated for effect.
13  Benefit is calculated on the basis of average weekly earnings.
14  The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.
15  Scientists have calculated that the world's population will double by the end of the century.