How to Use abacus in a Sentence

abacus

noun

• The bookkeeper went up to his abacus hanging on a nail and slid a black bead from right to left along its spindle.
  — Joanne Turnbull, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
• There are rolling bunnies and whales, a plane, fire trucks, cars, a 3D elephant puzzle, boxes with drawers, a tic-tac-toe game built like an abacus and more.
  — Holly Haber, Dallas News, 13 Dec. 2022
• The abacus — or counting frame — was useful, but limited.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2021
• The Guidestones are an abacus compared to Stonehenge’s computer.
  — Jill Neimark, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2013
• The exhibit tracks milestones in the progress of computational technology from the abacus to your smart phone.
  — Discover Magazine, 24 June 2011
• Last month, the mom of three shared a video of the two boys playing with a giant abacus in the park, crouched down together before turning around and looking at the camera and toddling off in different directions.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2023
• There are also two manual sliding abacus scorers on each end.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2022
• Math, for instance, might be represented by an abacus, while reading can be represented by a book.
  — Matt Villano, CNN, 11 Aug. 2020
• Recall the image of the many copies of a quantum abacus, distributed across many realities, all working in parallel.
  — Stephon Alexander, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
• At least for the next year, there’s little that liberal activists can do to really tinker with the abacus in Washington; the seats here are decided until November of 2022.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 29 Mar. 2021
• This is like the difference between building a stick-in-the-ground sundial versus a comparatively more complex accounting tool like an abacus, as one head of quantum research at a major Wall Street bank put it to me.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2020
• In other words, even if his characterization of the past is accurate, breaking out the abacus for some good old moral accounting does not necessarily make for good policy.
  — Mike Watson, National Review, 3 Dec. 2020
• Generally speaking, the abacus is more impressive, or at least more potentially useful.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2020
• Cultural classes — kite and lantern making, Chinese embroidery, Mandarin language and counting with an abacus — are offered along with other exhibitions.
  — Mary Jacobs, Dallas News, 25 May 2021

Last Updated: 12 Aug 2024