How to Use tally in a Sentence

tally

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• What is the final tally?
• Her second goal turned out to be the game-winning tally.
• Latto See the full Class of 2023 list here and the year-end tally here.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 11 Dec. 2023
• The final tally among this group: Stroud is the pick in 6, Levis in 4 and Richardson in 2.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Apr. 2023
• The set peaked at No. 2 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, and spent a total of eight weeks on the tally.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 7 Dec. 2023
• The tally ranks the 50 bestselling full-lengths and EPs in America each frame.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
• On that tally, Minaj scores the loftiest return of the week.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• It’s only spent a pair of frames anywhere on the tally, and now it’s reached a special new high.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• It’s been a war of words leading up to the tally — read what Nelson has been saying.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
• As the Christmas songs are swept from the chart for another year, a raft of singles vault up the tally.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 8 Jan. 2024
• If all three tracks holds their ground, Cole’s career tally of U.K. top 40 hits will lift to 14.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 9 Apr. 2024
• There’s also less pressure to keep an eye on the tally of player lives.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
• The rock set reappears at No. 193 on the all-encompassing tally.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• There should be an app that gives you a running tally, like the remaining battery life on your phone.
  — Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
• In the southern Sierra, the tally was greater than 300 percent of average.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
• The homicide tally this year is the highest in two decades, and there have been more than 900 carjacking incidents.
  — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• By early afternoon, the statewide tally had dipped to 2,465 customers.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
• That brings its worldwide tally to a respectable $235 million, the biggest global start for the franchise.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 16 July 2023
• That tally was down to a backlog of 52 applications as of July 14, according to the city.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 21 July 2023
• The final tally of Oscars remains to be seen, but the conclusion seems inevitable.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 13 Feb. 2024
• Wu did not provide, however, a tally of just how many have been sanctioned.
  — Julie Appleby, NPR, 8 Apr. 2024
• Adding to her impressive performance on the Vinyl Albums chart this week, Swift sees one of her other projects return to the tally.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• More concerning than the final tally was how those giveaways came.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2023
• That tally was more than Hatami, McKinney and Ramirez — the only other candidates in the race at the time — had raised combined.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• Countywide, the homeless tally this year grew 22 percent over last year.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
• The band enters the competitive main albums tally at No. 129.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• This means that the only practical way to get numbers is the volunteers’ flight-by-flight paper tally.
  — Mckenzie Funk, ProPublica, 8 Mar. 2024
• Thousands of others have been wounded, but there is no tally on how many Americans have been wounded.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2023
• Fort Lauderdale is already having its wettest year on record, and will likely add to its rainfall tally on Wednesday and Thursday.
  — Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2023
• With the deficit trimmed to two runs and the Dodgers down to their final out, Taylor came to the plate and hit a ground ball to the right side, triggering a rapid turn of events that ended with Smith racing home from second for the tying tally.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023

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tally

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• The numbers on the old list and the new list don't tally.
• He tallied his expenses every day.
• In the prior three games in the series, the Stars had tallied 63 shots in the slot against the Coyotes.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• Tucker tallied 30 homers in each of the last two seasons.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 29 Mar. 2023
• The number has steadily dropped, and last year tallied 82.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
• Marte tallied eight homers in 50 games for Chattanooga.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 23 July 2023
• Junior Cal Royer got five, as well, and tallied 34 yards of his own.
  — Shane Hoffmann | , oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2023
• The game is scored with teams tallying points for innings won instead of runs scored.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• On the night of its debut, The Last of Us tallied 5.7 million viewers, which marked a 22 percent increase from the first episode.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2023
• The Longhorns were led by sophomore Stryker Reed, who tallied 27 points and made four 3-pointers.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Mar. 2024
• Over the past six years, Rite Aid has tallied nearly $3 billion in losses.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 18 Oct. 2023
• On the chart tallying the week ending Feb. 11, seven songs in the top 10 stayed in the same position as the week before.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 14 Feb. 2024
• Vinyl Albums tallies the top-selling vinyl albums of the week.
  — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2023
• So far, she’s tallied $11.8 billion in money lost on the website’s Grift Counter.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Mar. 2023
• The Nittany Lions tally the 11th-fewest steals while forcing the third-fewest giveaways in the nation.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
• The Kansas pass rush, long considered a weakness of this year’s team, tallied six sacks in a game for the first time in nearly 14 years.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• Curtis has tallied 17 strikeouts in his last two games.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2023
• As a whole, the Aggies tallied 411 total yards and seven touchdowns.
  — Grant Gaspard, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2023
• In his hometown, Steph Curry tallied 23 points and four assists.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
• Edey scored Purdue's first seven points while Dickinson added an and-1 layup and a pair of free throws to tally eight of Michigan's first 13.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 27 Jan. 2023
• Chapman also tallied 12 punts of 50 yards or better and hasn’t had a punt blocked in his entire career.
  — Ainslie Lee | [e-mail], al, 24 Aug. 2023
• After this day, the voting will take a surprisingly long time to tally, and for 11 days the city will make no announcement.
  — Will Carless, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2022
• Despite tallying six nods, SZA was not nominated for artist of the year.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2023
• The new movie would be the latest installment in the blockbuster franchise, which has tallied five films (four of which starred Matt Damon) and more than $1.6 billion at the box office.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 20 Nov. 2023
• There are, however, a total of eight bathrooms, four of them powder rooms, and the number of fireplaces also tallies up to eight.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2024
• One way to measure the economic vitality of a city is to tally how many super-wealthy folks opt to live and do business there.
  — Nicolas Rapp, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2024
• For example, Instacart tallies how many hours and dollars have been saved with each order.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2023
• An ecosystem of online stores and chat groups openly sell GitHub stars, which users award to signal interest in a project and can be tallied to rank the most popular.
  — WIRED, 23 Oct. 2023
• Smith started seven games and appeared in all 13, tallying 20 tackles with two sacks.
  — Matt Stahl | [e-mail], al, 5 Aug. 2023
• Senior Skylar Henley has tallied a team high 25 points.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Mar. 2024

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