If it wasn't so late I believe I'd start in figuring on it to-night.
I was figuring on running the wires on the top side, but if we put them underneath it will look neater, although it will take longer to do it.
He is not only answerable to the superintendent, in almost every case he is freight-agent, too, making out the bills of lading and figuring the complicated rate sheet.
It announces publicly its willingness to redeem unused portions of its tickets, and the work of figuring out the amount due on a ticket, sometimes half or three-quarters used, requires a rate-clerk of ability and patience.
Perk, in hopes that he might be thinking of dropping down when some tempting lake came in sight, said nothing, though figuring on broaching the subject presently when the sun sank a little further toward the western horizon.
I'll give you fifty dollars spot cash for the lot," he said, after figuring a moment.
I had for some time been figuring on an original plan of advertising, by which I felt certain of success.
So saying I produced a roll of bills, and after figuring up and adding eight per cent.
Now, I've been figuring it out pretty careful, and this is just about the way we're fixed.
If you still scoff let us look at the system together and do a little figuring upon our own account.
Some people must stay up nights figuring along the lines of permutations and combinations, so as to work out some unheard of ones for the things they ask for in Macy's.
Doubtless he had been figuring on what he would do with his share of the prize money, and hated to see his rosy visions fade away so soon.
Well, that was a part of the figuring when we started on this race," observed Jack.
They talked of the Florentine, the Roman, the cosmopolite world, and might have been distinguished performers figuring for a charity.
Max was figuring tables in his time-book, Hilda poring over the cash account.
Bannon was sitting in the office chair with his feet on the draughting-table, figuring on the back of a blotter.
Doc," said Jordan carelessly, "you'd better be figuring a way to get off the ship.
We've got to do somefiguring ourselves," interposed Docchi.
And you get tired figuring out almanacs and the book with 1,000 drummer's jokes in it don't sound so good in print as when a fellow tells them to you and I never was much of a one for novels.
And figuring on it being three thousand miles from New York to San Francisco, we could do it in sixty hours of continuous flight," added Dick.
By figuring out the rate of speed, and comparing the elapsed time, and then by figuring on a scale map, it was estimated, as dusk settled down, that they were about on the border line between Pennsylvania and Ohio.
So you're not figuring on stopping off at Morrison?
A cow can consume four tons of silage in 180 days and more or less as you care to feed, so by figuring out how long you will probably feed, you can see the size of silo to build at once.
How much water would you consider absolutely necessary to carry to full-bearing citrus trees an clay loam-that is, how many acres to a miner's inch, figuring nine gallons per minute to the inch?
When you saw Jack figuring in Captain Absolute, you thought you could trace his promotion to some lady of quality who fancied the handsome fellow in his top-knot, and had bought him a commission.
When you saw Jack figuring in Captain Absolute, you thought you could trace his promotion to some lady of quality who fancied the handsome fellow in his topknot, and had bought him a commission.
He was so successful in this figuring that he encouraged the young people from Milton to believe as he did.
It was quite a novel sensation for the captain to find himself figuring in the eyes of Willoughby as a "bulldog.
So that Riddell had a quiet time of it, fielding the few balls that came to him steadily and promptly, but otherwise not figuring prominently in the downfall of any wicket.
Perry had never tried to even rent an apartment in a big city, figuring that any place where land was at a premium was a place where people willing to spend more than him could be found.
They don't check on it, except maybe the mob when they're figuring out who to mug.
In spite of himself he went on reasoning in stupendous thoughts, in enormous ideas, figuring with immense abstractions.
It interested and amused him, and he felt a certain self-importance in handling large sums of money, and in figuring interest, rents, and percentages.
I think Dawson has done more correct figuring in the last seven seconds," he said, "then we of Intelligence have done in the last seven days.
I had another of my hunches and went down under the stuff, figuring he might drop down through.
Even Bumpus was figuring what thirty miles "as the crow flies" might mean, when they had to follow varying trails and roads, subject to the whims of any military commands they chanced to meet.
Thad was watching the road in advance, as though mentally figuring on where they would run across the ambuscade planned by these bellicose Belgian boys.
I'm figuring what course we'll have to take in order to avoid several German towns that are marked here," returned Allan.
While we're figuring this out you'd better hop over there and bring over enough to last you two until we get you home.
You ain't figuring on taking anybody but Shiro along, are you?
He's got to be figuring he can use the big names for headlines and leverage, if he needs it.
He had been figuring an assault was overdue, and he had been prepared for it for several hours now.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "figuring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
