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Example sentences for "tally"

Lexicographically close words:
tallness; tallo; tallow; tallowed; tallowy; tallyho; tallying; tallys; taloned; talons
  1. That was chiefly where the difference stood, | |for on actual earned points by placement Johnston | |only had a tally of 53 to 51 for the Comet.

  2. The Sox entered that spasm four runs behind, having converted Demmitt's lone hit in the first inning into the only genuine tally of the day.

  3. All we ladies of the court Are lovers of sport of every sort; Every hunting cry we know, As hark tally ho, view tally ho!

  4. The best known notch books are the message sticks used in Australia and Africa and the tally used in the British Exchequer up to a recent date for the keeping of accounts.

  5. To make sure that Tally was really dead I got down into the boat.

  6. Those who come afterward to set down the tale and tally of the Great War will record that through the centuries the Belgians retained their ancient valor.

  7. Each outfit exchanged slips based on the round-up tally with every other brand and so could show bill of sale for off-brand stuff in their beef shipments or for any rebrands on the range.

  8. Each rep entered the number and kind of his own brand so reported to the former tally taken of the herd.

  9. It would take three crews to cover his range and tally the fresh Three Bar rebrands of this one season--a few here and a few there.

  10. At the end of the first week out from the ranch Harris pulled up his horse beside the girl's and showed her his tally book.

  11. As a matter of fact, he did, allowing the Union Vales to tally two runs, but after that he had five chances and accepted them all, while at bat he made the very creditable showing of two hits for a total of three bases out of six times up.

  12. With the bases full, even with two out, the Blues’ chance of adding more runs to their tally seemed excellent.

  13. Handsome to the cathead, now; O tally on the fall!

  14. Then he stands up and frowns, and begins to tally off his clues on his fingers--and gets stuck at the ring-finger.

  15. It has to tally up a hundred against one before it can pump up pluck enough to tackle a sick tailor.

  16. The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.

  17. To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

  18. The trade thus regulated is called tally trade.

  19. One who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his business as tally trade.

  20. An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.

  21. They were willing enough to put them to one side, but wanted to count them in on the tally sheets.

  22. There was a Tammany inspector of elections and four tally clerks.

  23. Mr. Cluyme was one of those persons the effusiveness of whose greeting does not tally with the limpness of their grasp.

  24. Those cows left out on the cliff field all last night, and Tally must have gone over, for I can't see her anywhere.

  25. But, to Dick's great disappointment, Tally uttered a soft low, and began to swing her tail gently round, so as to give Jemmy a pat on the back.

  26. I tell you they've got Tally on the deck of the cutter.

  27. You admit that it is the tally card you used while playing bridge this afternoon?

  28. She jumped to her feet and threaded a swift way over Oriental rugs and between the two bridge tables, still occupying the center of the big room, still cluttered with score pads, tally cards, and playing cards.

  29. Lois Dunlap rose, laid down her tally card, and strolled over to the remaining table.

  30. Janet was score-keeper for us this afternoon, but we all waited, after our last hand was played, for Janet to give us the result for our tally cards.

  31. Instead of tally cards each guest may be furnished a little wooden shoe on a Delft-blue ribbon.

  32. Tally cards may be painted to represent different musical instruments, such as violins, guitars, mandolins, etc.

  33. Defn: An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.

  34. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game.

  35. To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game.

  36. A Yankee ship, and a Yankee crew, Tally hi ho!

  37. Where his father had spent anxious days with cargo tally and ship-master, the son wasted hours in directing sewing men as they adorned a coat, and nights in vapouring at a banquet.

  38. Also, never tally because someone else says he has seen the otter, see it yourself first.

  39. By doing so each individual can watch the water in front of him, and tally when he is certain he sees the otter.

  40. Each division in the racks held its own brown canvas or painted kit-bag, with the brightly polished brass tally on the bottom stamped with the owner's name, all the tallies being set at precisely the same angle.

  41. Slew 'er round till the letters on your tally are 'orizontal.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accord; accordance; account; accounting; add; affinity; aggregate; agree; ally; amount; analogue; annual; answer; assent; associate; balance; belong; bill; book; brand; brief; brother; bulletin; cachet; calculate; calendar; calibrate; canvass; cast; catalog; check; chime; chorus; cipher; cognate; cohere; coherence; coincide; coincidence; colophon; companion; compatibility; complement; comport; compute; concert; concord; concordance; concur; conform; conformation; conformity; congeniality; congruence; congruity; consistency; consonance; consort; cooperate; cooperation; coordinate; correlate; correspond; correspondence; correspondent; count; counterpart; difference; divide; docket; dope; dovetail; enroll; enter; enumerate; enumeration; equal; equivalence; equivalent; estimate; fellow; figure; file; gee; girl; hallmark; harmonize; harmony; hit; image; impanel; imprint; index; interlock; intersect; intersection; inventory; items; jibe; label; letterhead; like; likeness; list; lock; love; march; masthead; match; mate; measure; minutes; multiply; number; obverse; oneness; overlap; page; parallel; parallelism; peace; pendant; picture; pigeonhole; plate; point; poll; post; proceedings; product; program; quantity; rapport; reciprocal; reckon; reckoning; record; register; registry; repertory; report; returns; schedule; score; seal; signet; similitude; simulacrum; sister; square; stamp; statement; sticker; stub; subtract; such; suchlike; suit; sum; summation; symmetry; synchronism; tabulate; tale; tally; tell; ticket; timing; token; total; tote; twin; uniformity; union; unison; whole