How to Use arithmetic in a Sentence

arithmetic

noun

• I haven't actually done the arithmetic yet, but I suspect we're losing money on the deal.
• But the arithmetic in the Senate is less forgiving than in the House.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 13 July 2017
• And once it’s shaped and hardened, the rest is just arithmetic and money.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
• A little arithmetic gives us the answer: 3 packs of plates, and 4 packs of forks.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
• Some of this coyness stems from Wall Street’s new arithmetic.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• The basic arithmetic gives the edge to C corps, for which the top tax rate has been cut to 21 percent from 35 percent.
  — Conrad De Aenlle, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
• Zinke had struggled from the start to explain his arithmetic.
  — J. Weston Phippen, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2018
• The whole story on right whales is very simple arithmetic: How many die and how many are born?
  — Washington Post, 1 May 2017
• The most familiar grid in arithmetic is the times table.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Feb. 2019
• Doing the arithmetic, that doesn't leave a lot of space for Harrison.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2023
• Add it all up Brace yourself, because the arithmetic may be hard to swallow.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2017
• The mortal arithmetic here is easy to do—and argues strongly in favor of getting the shots.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Jan. 2021
• Physics and arithmetic become echoes of each other, in a way that echoes across the Langlands program.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
• In the strange arithmetic created by the playoff, that win against Clemson now looks stronger.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2020
• This was pure old school – a textbook of reading, writing and arithmetic.
  — Ailene Voisin, sacbee.com, 6 May 2017
• And each room carries a special theme such as music, art and, yes, arithmetic.
  — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 20 Apr. 2018
• Those who worked out at the gym this week seemed to be engrossed in a complicated moral arithmetic.
  — Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2019
• If our arithmetic is correct, that's more than $22 thousand per square inch.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 20 May 2017
• But the bottom line is: Their own personal arithmetic just doesn’t add up.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 25 Oct. 2017
• All that political arithmetic explains why Macron is now 20 points ahead of Le Pen in the polls.
  — Jean-Marie Pottier, Slate Magazine, 24 Apr. 2017
• The simple arithmetic of home payments drives this decline.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• Studios have been doing this sort of arithmetic a lot lately.
  — T.m. Brown, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• The scale of Russia’s losses has partly negated the impact of this arithmetic.
  — Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• Then again, games are still scored with numbers, so arithmetic does matter in these contests.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2024
• For him, the arithmetic of politics was always more potent than the chemistry.
  — David M. Shribman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021
• Simple arithmetic will show you that two heads and an extra set of hands are always better than one.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 26 Nov. 2019
• But as chaos turns to mayhem, Republican ideas have to follow the rules of arithmetic.
  — Dan Haar, courant.com, 16 Sep. 2017
• The unpleasantries of budget arithmetic may pose the biggest challenge of all.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
• The only way to get around that harsh arithmetic is by making our water, oxygen, and fuel on-site.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2018
• For him, the moral arithmetic is simple and Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian population is fundamentally wrong.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024