CALCULATING in a Sentence

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198 example sentences for CALCULATING, such as:
1. Her whole behavior is calculated for effect.
2. I calculated that he would arrive at midnight.
3. A calculated, cast up, balanced, and proved house.
4. The calculating look in his eyes told of Norman blood.
5. We must provide for depreciation when calculating the costs.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CALCULATING
calculating
 a.  used of persons
Classic Sentence: (137 in 10 pages)
1  I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse before I could hope for a resurrection.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
2  Evening after evening Jurgis and Ona would sit and figure the expenses, calculating the term of their separation.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
3  There are plenty among them who have only enough of the African to give a sort of tropical warmth and fervor to our calculating firmness and foresight.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  He really liked Sissy too well to have a contempt for her; otherwise he held her calculating powers in such very slight estimation that he must have fallen upon that conclusion.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
5  The bridesmaids, down to little Jane Gradgrind, were, in an intellectual point of view, fit helpmates for the calculating boy; and there was no nonsense about any of the company.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
6  You, who are accustomed to the palaces of Italy, can amuse yourself by calculating in how many square feet a young man who is not the worst lodged in Paris can live.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 41. The Presentation.
7  A shopkeeper with red pimples on his cheeks near the nose, and a calm, persistent, calculating expression on his plump face, hurriedly and ostentatiously approached the officer, swinging his arms.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXI
8  Jean Valjean went into ambush in a doorway, calculating that if the men were still following him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed this illuminated space.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
9  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
10  A calculated, cast up, balanced, and proved house.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
11  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
12  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
13  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
14  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
15  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
Example Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  The calculating look in his eyes told of Norman blood.
2  In the film she's depicted as a very cold and calculating character.
3  Historically, royal marriages have been cold, calculating affairs.
4  Charles Babbage's mechanical calculating engines were the antecedents of the modern computer.
5  She caught a coolly calculating glint in the other woman's eye.
6  An Invoicer participant provides the Invoicing service for calculating the initial price for a purchase order.
7  We must provide for depreciation when calculating the costs.
8  She was not calculating and evidenced no specific interest in money.
9  The savings from eliminating redundancy is not being subtracted in calculating the true cost.
10  I got an old tin lamp and an iron ring, and went out in the woods and rubbed and rubbed till I sweat like an Injun, calculating to build a palace and sell it; but it warn't no use, none of the genies come.
11  The amount is calculated according to the number of years you have paid into the scheme.
12  I calculated that he would arrive at midnight.
13  This advertisement is calculated to attract the attention of housewives.
14  Her whole behavior is calculated for effect.
15  Benefit is calculated on the basis of average weekly earnings.